Coached Conversational Preference Elicitation: A Case Study in Understanding Movie Preferences
Filip Radlinski, Krisztian Balog, Bill Byrne, Karthik Krishnamoorthi
Abstract
Conversational recommendation has recently attracted significant attention. As systems must understand users’ preferences, training them has called for conversational corpora, typically derived from task-oriented conversations. We observe that such corpora often do not reflect how people naturally describe preferences. We present a new approach to obtaining user preferences in dialogue: Coached Conversational Preference Elicitation. It allows collection of natural yet structured conversational preferences. Studying the dialogues in one domain, we present a brief quantitative analysis of how people describe movie preferences at scale. Demonstrating the methodology, we release the CCPE-M dataset to the community with over 500 movie preference dialogues expressing over 10,000 preferences.- Anthology ID:
- W19-5941
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
- Month:
- September
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Editors:
- Satoshi Nakamura, Milica Gasic, Ingrid Zukerman, Gabriel Skantze, Mikio Nakano, Alexandros Papangelis, Stefan Ultes, Koichiro Yoshino
- Venue:
- SIGDIAL
- SIG:
- SIGDIAL
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 353–360
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W19-5941
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W19-5941
- Cite (ACL):
- Filip Radlinski, Krisztian Balog, Bill Byrne, and Karthik Krishnamoorthi. 2019. Coached Conversational Preference Elicitation: A Case Study in Understanding Movie Preferences. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 353–360, Stockholm, Sweden. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Coached Conversational Preference Elicitation: A Case Study in Understanding Movie Preferences (Radlinski et al., SIGDIAL 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/teach-a-man-to-fish/W19-5941.pdf
- Data
- CCPE-M, Coached Conversational Preference Elicitation