Improving recommender systems with adaptive conversational strategies

Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, HT'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 73-82

  Mahmood, Tariq ^b   Ricci, Francesco ^a  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptivity; Conversational recommender systems; Markov decision process; Reinforcement learning; User study

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVITY; CONVERSATIONAL RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; USER STUDY;

DECISION MAKING; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; REINFORCEMENT; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 70450169670     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1557914.1557930     Document Type: Conference Paper

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