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Knowledge discovery for personalizing the product recommendation task is a major focus of research in the area of conversational recommender systems to increase efficiency and effectiveness. Conversational recommender systems guide users through a product space, alternatively making product suggestions and eliciting user feedback. Critiquing is a common and powerful form of feedback, where a user can express her feature preferences by applying a series of directional critiques over recommendations, instead of providing specific value preferences. For example, a user might ask for a ‘less expensive’ vacation in a travel recommender; thus ‘less expensive’ is a critique over the price feature. The expectation is that on each cycle, the system discovers more about the user’s soft product preferences from minimal information input. In this paper we describe three different strategies for knowledge discovery from user preferences that improve recommendation efficiency in a conversational system using critiquing. Moreover, we will demonstrate that while the strategies work well separately, their combined effort has the potential to considerably increase recommendation efficiency even further.
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Salamó, M., Reilly, J., McGinty, L., Smyth, B. (2005). Knowledge Discovery from User Preferences in Conversational Recommendation. In: Jorge, A.M., Torgo, L., Brazdil, P., Camacho, R., Gama, J. (eds) Knowledge Discovery in Databases: PKDD 2005. PKDD 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3721. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11564126_25
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