[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 …

A survey of knowledge-enhanced text generation

W Yu, C Zhu, Z Li, Z Hu, Q Wang, H Ji… - ACM Computing …, 2022‏ - dl.acm.org
The goal of text-to-text generation is to make machines express like a human in many
applications such as conversation, summarization, and translation. It is one of the most …

Machines augmenting entrepreneurs: Opportunities (and threats) at the Nexus of artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship

DA Shepherd, A Majchrzak - Journal of Business Venturing, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to machines that are trained to perform tasks associated with
human intelligence, interpret external data, learn from that external data, and use that …

Challenges in building intelligent open-domain dialog systems

M Huang, X Zhu, J Gao - ACM Transactions on Information Systems …, 2020‏ - dl.acm.org
There is a resurgent interest in develo** intelligent open-domain dialog systems due to
the availability of large amounts of conversational data and the recent progress on neural …

Knowledge-grounded dialogue generation with pre-trained language models

X Zhao, W Wu, C Xu, C Tao, D Zhao, R Yan - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020‏ - arxiv.org
We study knowledge-grounded dialogue generation with pre-trained language models. To
leverage the redundant external knowledge under capacity constraint, we propose …

Seamlessly unifying attributes and items: Conversational recommendation for cold-start users

S Li, W Lei, Q Wu, X He, P Jiang, TS Chua - ACM Transactions on …, 2021‏ - dl.acm.org
Static recommendation methods like collaborative filtering suffer from the inherent limitation
of performing real-time personalization for cold-start users. Online recommendation, eg …

Query resolution for conversational search with limited supervision

N Voskarides, D Li, P Ren, E Kanoulas… - Proceedings of the 43rd …, 2020‏ - dl.acm.org
In this work we focus on multi-turn passage retrieval as a crucial component of
conversational search. One of the key challenges in multi-turn passage retrieval comes from …

Conversational recommendation: Formulation, methods, and evaluation

W Lei, X He, M de Rijke, TS Chua - … of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR …, 2020‏ - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems have demonstrated great success in information seeking. However,
traditional recommender systems work in a static way, estimating user preferences on items …

Bridging the gap between prior and posterior knowledge selection for knowledge-grounded dialogue generation

X Chen, F Meng, P Li, F Chen, S Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2020‏ - aclanthology.org
Abstract Knowledge selection plays an important role in knowledge-grounded dialogue,
which is a challenging task to generate more informative responses by leveraging external …

Harnessing holistic discourse features and triadic interaction for sentiment quadruple extraction in dialogues

B Li, H Fei, L Liao, Y Zhao, F Su, F Li, D Ji - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2024‏ - ojs.aaai.org
Dialogue Aspect-based Sentiment Quadruple (DiaASQ) is a newly-emergent task aiming to
extract the sentiment quadruple (ie, targets, aspects, opinions, and sentiments) from …