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IUI
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Recommendations without user preferences: a natural language processing approach
We examine the problems with automated recommendation systems when information about user preferences is limited. We equate the problem to one of content similarity measurement an...
Michael Fleischman, Eduard H. Hovy
ICTAI
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Comparing Approaches to Preference Dominance for Conversational Recommenders
A conversational recommender system iteratively shows a small set of options for its user to choose between. In order to select these options, the system may analyze the queries tr...
Walid Trabelsi, Nic Wilson, Derek G. Bridge, Franc...
UM
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Bayesian Approach to Modelling Users' Information Display Preferences
This paper describes the process by which we constructed a user model for ERST - an External Representation Selection Tutor - which recommends external representations (ERs) for pa...
Beate Grawemeyer, Richard Cox
RECSYS
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Regret-based optimal recommendation sets in conversational recommender systems
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...
Paolo Viappiani, Craig Boutilier
ESWS
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Semantic Reasoning: A Path to New Possibilities of Personalization
Abstract. Recommender systems face up to current information overload by selecting automatically items that match the personal preferences of each user. The so-called content-based...
Yolanda Blanco-Fernández, José J. Pa...