Towards a taxonomy of user feedback intents for conversational recommendations

Wanling Cai; Li Chen

Towards a taxonomy of user feedback intents for conversational recommendations

Wanling Cai, Li Chen

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

Understanding users’ feedback on recommendation in natural language is crucially important for assisting the system to refine its understanding of the user’s preferences and provide more accurate recommendations in the subsequent interactions. In this paper, we report the results of an exploratory study on a human-human dialogue dataset centered around movie recommendations. In particular, we manually labeled a set of over 200 dialogues at the utterance level, and then conducted descriptive analysis on them from both seekers’ and recommenders’ perspectives. The results reveal not only seekers’ feedback intents as well as the types of preferences they have expressed, but also the reactions of human recommenders that have finally led to successful recommendation. A taxonomy for feedback intents is established along with the results, which could be constructive for improving conversational recommender systems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of ACM RecSys 2019 Late-breaking Results, co-located with the 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2019)
Editors	Marko Tkalcic, Sole Pera
Publisher	CEUR-WS
Pages	51-55
Number of pages	5
Publication status	Published - 26 Aug 2019
Event	2019 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems Late-breaking Results, ACM RecSys LBR 2019 - Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 16 Sept 2019 → 20 Sept 2019 https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2431/

Publication series

Name	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publisher	CEUR-WS
Volume	2431
ISSN (Print)	1613-0073

Conference

Conference	2019 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems Late-breaking Results, ACM RecSys LBR 2019
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Copenhagen
Period	16/09/19 → 20/09/19
Internet address	https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2431/

Scopus Subject Areas

Computer Science(all)

User-Defined Keywords

Dialogue-based conversational recommender systems
Intent taxonomy
User feedback

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Cai, W., & Chen, L. (2019). Towards a taxonomy of user feedback intents for conversational recommendations. In M. Tkalcic, & S. Pera (Eds.), Proceedings of ACM RecSys 2019 Late-breaking Results, co-located with the 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2019) (pp. 51-55). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2431). CEUR-WS. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2431/paper11.pdf

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Cai, W & Chen, L 2019, Towards a taxonomy of user feedback intents for conversational recommendations. in M Tkalcic & S Pera (eds), Proceedings of ACM RecSys 2019 Late-breaking Results, co-located with the 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2019). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 2431, CEUR-WS, pp. 51-55, 2019 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems Late-breaking Results, ACM RecSys LBR 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16/09/19. <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2431/paper11.pdf>

Towards a taxonomy of user feedback intents for conversational recommendations. / Cai, Wanling; Chen, Li.
Proceedings of ACM RecSys 2019 Late-breaking Results, co-located with the 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2019). ed. / Marko Tkalcic; Sole Pera. CEUR-WS, 2019. p. 51-55 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2431).

Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review

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