Adaptive selection: An analysis of critiquing and preference-based feedback in conversational recommender systems

International Journal of Electronic Commerce

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 35-57

  McGinty, Lorraine ^a   Smyth, Barry ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Changing Worlds Ltd   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Adaptive e commerce applications; Conversational recommender systems; Critiquing; Feedback elicitation; Preference based feedback; Similarity and diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846230930     PISSN: 10864415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/JEC1086-4415110202     Document Type: Article

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