User simulation for evaluating information access systems

K Balog, CX Zhai - Proceedings of the Annual International ACM SIGIR …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
With the emergence of various information access systems exhibiting increasing complexity,
there is a critical need for sound and scalable means of automatic evaluation. To address …

Beyond Persuasion: Towards Conversational Recommender System with Credible Explanations

P Qin, C Huang, Y Deng, W Lei, TS Chua - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
With the aid of large language models, current conversational recommender system (CRS)
has gaining strong abilities to persuade users to accept recommended items. While these …

MCKP: Multi-aspect contextual knowledge-enhanced prompting for conversational recommender systems

Y Wang, Y Zhang, J Zhu, Y Li, W Zhou - Information Sciences, 2025 - Elsevier
Empowering conversational recommender systems (CRSs) with knowledge facilitates the
generation of high-quality human-like recommendation proposals to users. Despite …

Evaluating Conversational Recommender Systems with Large Language Models: A User-Centric Evaluation Framework

N Chen, Q Dai, X Dong, XM Wu, Z Dong - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.09493, 2025 - arxiv.org
Conversational recommender systems (CRS) involve both recommendation and dialogue
tasks, which makes their evaluation a unique challenge. Although past research has …

CLICK: Integrating Causal Inference and Commonsense Knowledge Incorporation for Counterfactual Story Generation

D Li, Z Guo, Q Liu, L **, Z Zhang, K Wei, F Li - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Counterfactual reasoning explores what could have happened if the circumstances were
different from what actually occurred. As a crucial subtask, counterfactual story generation …

Towards Conversational Recommendation in Education: Synthesizing Conversations from Structured Course Data and Benchmarking for Conversational Curriculum …

E Steira - 2024 - ntnuopen.ntnu.no
Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) introduce a conversational element to
traditional Recommender Systems (RS), allowing for dynamic and interactive …

Augmentation with Neighboring Information for Conversational Recommendation

Y Liu, J Pei, WN Zhang, M Li, W Che, M de Rijke - ACM Transactions on … - dl.acm.org
Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) suggest items to users by understanding
their needs and preferences from natural language conversations. While users can freely …