Abstract. Critiquing techniques provide an easy way for users to feedback their preferences over one or several attributes of the products in a conversational recommender system. W...
Conversational recommender systems help to guide users through a product-space towards a particular product that meets their specific requirements. During the course of a “conve...
Kevin McCarthy, James Reilly, Lorraine McGinty, Ba...
Abstract. Critiquing is a powerful style of feedback for case-based recommender systems. Instead of providing detailed feature values, users indicate a directional preference for a...
James Reilly, Kevin McCarthy, Lorraine McGinty, Ba...
Current conversational recommender systems are unable to offer guarantees on the quality of their recommendations due to a lack of principled user utility models. We develop an ap...
Critiquing-based recommenders do not require users to state all of their preferences upfront or rate a set of previously experienced products. Compared to other types of recommend...