[HTML][HTML] Advances and challenges in conversational recommender systems: A survey

C Gao, W Lei, X He, M de Rijke, TS Chua - AI open, 2021 - Elsevier
Recommender systems exploit interaction history to estimate user preference, having been
heavily used in a wide range of industry applications. However, static recommendation …

Voice assistant vs. Chatbot–examining the fit between conversational agents' interaction modalities and information search tasks

C Rzepka, B Berger, T Hess - Information Systems Frontiers, 2022 - Springer
Owing to technological advancements in artificial intelligence, voice assistants (VAs) offer
speech as a new interaction modality. Compared to text-based interaction, speech is natural …

Investigating conversational search behavior for domain exploration

P Schneider, A Afzal, J Vladika, D Braun… - European Conference on …, 2023 - Springer
Conversational search has evolved as a new information retrieval paradigm, marking a shift
from traditional search systems towards interactive dialogues with intelligent search agents …

Hard-style Selective Context Utilization for dialogue generation based on what user just said

Y Ling, Z Liang, T Wang, F Cai, H Chen - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
Dialogue is a process of information exchanging, where global background is stable while
local focuses are transiting. Thus, at the ongoing dialogue turn, there are both relevant and …

Generating relevant and informative questions for open-domain conversations

Y Ling, F Cai, J Liu, H Chen, M de Rijke - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recent research has highlighted the importance of mixed-initiative interactions in
conversational search. To enable mixed-initiative interactions, information retrieval systems …

Prompting Datasets: Data Discovery with Conversational Agents

J Walker, E Koutsiana, J Massey, G Thuermer… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Can large language models assist in data discovery? Data discovery predominantly
happens via search on a data portal or the web, followed by assessment of the dataset to …

ToneCheck: Unveiling the Impact of Dialects in Privacy Policy

J Barot, A Allami, M Yin, D Lin - … of the 29th ACM Symposium on Access …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Users frequently struggle to decipher privacy policies, facing challenges due to the legalese
often present in privacy policies, leaving trust and comprehension shrouded in ambiguity …

Designing useful conversational interfaces for information retrieval in career decision-making support

M Wilson - European Conference on Information Retrieval, 2023 - Springer
The proposal is an interdisciplinary problem-focused study to explore the usefulness of
conversational information retrieval (CIR) in a complex domain. A research-through-design …

AI-based Technologies for Everyone: How and Why to Adapt Voice Assistants' Complexity to Older Adults

C Rzepka, B Berger, S Tams - 2023 - aisel.aisnet.org
Technological advancements in the area of artificial intelligence have rapidly improved the
performance of speech recognition and natural language processing. These improvements …

[PDF][PDF] AI Open

C Gao, W Lei, X He, M de Rijke, TS Chua - staff.fnwi.uva.nl
Recommender systems exploit interaction history to estimate user preference, having been
heavily used in a wide range of industry applications. However, static recommendation …