Reading List for Conversational Recommender System (ConvRecSys)

Dear participants: This paper list is collected by our organizers’ team. Feel free to suggest new paper through the Slack Channels! Thanks!

Surveys

• Deep Conversational Recommender Systems: A New Frontier for Goal-Oriented Dialogue Systems. Dai Hoang Tran, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Salma Abdalla Hamad, Munazza Zaib, Nguyen H. Tran, Lina Yao, Nguyen Lu Dang Khoa. arXiv ‘20 PDF@arxiv
• A Survey on Conversational Recommender Systems. Dietmar Jannach, Ahtsham Manzoor, Wanling Cai, Li Chen. arXiv ‘20 PDF@arxiv

Tutorials

• Conversational Recommendation: Formulation, Methods, and Evaluation Wenqiang Lei, Xiangnan He, Maarten de Rijke, Tat-Seng Chua SIGIR ‘20 PDF Slides(PDF)
• Tutorial on Conversational Recommendation Systems Zuohui Fu, Yikun Xian, Yongfeng Zhang, Yi Zhang. RecSys ‘20 PDF Slides(PDF)

Research Papers

[Note on 21st Dec 2020] Dear participants: our team is still in discussion for the strucutre of this section. It will be updated and furnitured by late this year!

We currently follow the categorization in SIGIR 2020 Tutorial to recommend following research papers:

Question-Driven Approaches:

• Towards conversational search and recommendation: System ask, user respond. Yongfeng Zhang, Xu Chen, Qingyao Ai, Liu Yang, and W Bruce Croft. CIKM ‘18 PDF@acm.dl
• Towards Question-based Recommender Systems. Jie Zou, Yifan Chen, Evangelos Kanoulas. SIGIR’ 20 [PDF@arXiv] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14255)
• Q&R: A Two-Stage Approach toward Interactive Recommendation. Konstantina Christakopoulou, Alex Beutel, Rui Li, Sagar Jain, Ed H. Chi. SIGKDD ‘18 PDF@dl.acm

Multi-turn Conversational Recommendation Strategy:

• Conversational Recommender System. Yueming Sun and Yi Zhang. SIGIR ‘18 PDF@dl.acm
• Estimation-Action-Reflection: Towards Deep Interaction Between Conversational and Recommender Systems Wenqiang Lei, Xiangnan He, Yisong Miao, Qingyun Wu, Richang Hong, Min-Yen Kan & Tat-Seng Chua WSDM ‘20 PDF@USTC
• Interactive Path Reasoning on Graph for Conversational Recommendation. Wenqiang Lei, Gangyi Zhang, Xiangnan He, Yisong Miao, Xiang Wang, Liang Chen & Tat-Seng Chua. SIGKDD ‘20 PDF@USTC

Dialogue Understanding and Generation:

• Towards Deep Conversational Recommendations. Raymond Li, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Hannes Schulz, Vincent Michalski, Laurent Charlin, and Chris Pal. NIPS ‘18 PDF@nips.cc
• Towards Knowledge-Based Recommender Dialog System. Qibin Chen, Junyang Lin, Yichang Zhang, Ming Ding, Yukuo Cen, Hongxia Yang, Jie Tang. EMNLP ‘19 PDF@aclweb
• Towards Conversational Recommendation over Multi-Type Dialogs. Zeming Liu, Haifeng Wang, Zheng-Yu Niu, Hua Wu, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu. ACL ‘20 PDF@aclweb
• Knowledge-aware Multimodal Dialogue Systems. Lizi Liao, Yunshan Ma, Xiangnan He, Richang Hong, and Tat-Seng Chua. ACM MM’18 PDF@USTC

Exploitation-Exploration Trade-offs for Cold Users:

• Towards Conversational Recommender Systems. Konstantina Christakopoulou, Filip Radlinski, Katja Hofmann. SIGKDD’16 PDF@dl.acm
• Conversational Contextual Bandit: Algorithm and Application. Xiaoying Zhang, Hong Xie, Hang Li, John C.S. Lui. WebConf, 2020 PDF@dl.acm
• Seamlessly Unifying Attributes and Items: Conversational Recommendation for Cold-Start Users. Shijun Li, Wenqiang Lei, Qingyun Wu, Xiangnan He, Peng Jiang, Tat-Seng Chua. arXiv ‘20 PDF@arXiv

Others:

We also list other papers that could not be listed within the category of the SIGIR ‘20 Tutorial:

• An Visual Dialog Augmented Interactive Recommender System. Tong Yu, Yilin Shen, and Hongxia Jin. SIGKDD ‘19 PDF@acm.dl
• Deep Conversational Recommender in Travel. Lizi Liao, Ryuichi Takanobu, Yunshan Ma, Xun Yang, Minlie Huang and Tat-Seng Chua. arXiv ‘19 PDF@arXiv
• Text-Based Interactive Recommendation via Constraint-Augmented Reinforcement Learning. Ruiyi Zhang, Tong Yu, Yilin Shen, Hongxia Jin, Changyou Chen. NIPS ‘19 PDF@nips.cc
• Towards Knowledge-Based Recommender Dialog System. Qibin Chen, Junyang Lin, Yichang Zhang, Ming Ding, Yukuo Cen, Hongxia Yang, Jie Tang. EMNLP ‘19 PDF@aclweb