4 research outputs found
INFACT: An Online Human Evaluation Framework for Conversational Recommendation
Conversational recommender systems (CRS) are interactive agents that support
their users in recommendation-related goals through multi-turn conversations.
Generally, a CRS can be evaluated in various dimensions. Today's CRS mainly
rely on offline(computational) measures to assess the performance of their
algorithms in comparison to different baselines. However, offline measures can
have limitations, for example, when the metrics for comparing a newly generated
response with a ground truth do not correlate with human perceptions, because
various alternative generated responses might be suitable too in a given dialog
situation. Current research on machine learning-based CRS models therefore
acknowledges the importance of humans in the evaluation process, knowing that
pure offline measures may not be sufficient in evaluating a highly interactive
system like a CRS.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures
Towards Retrieval-based Conversational Recommendation
Conversational recommender systems have attracted immense attention recently.
The most recent approaches rely on neural models trained on recorded dialogs
between humans, implementing an end-to-end learning process. These systems are
commonly designed to generate responses given the user's utterances in natural
language. One main challenge is that these generated responses both have to be
appropriate for the given dialog context and must be grammatically and
semantically correct. An alternative to such generation-based approaches is to
retrieve responses from pre-recorded dialog data and to adapt them if needed.
Such retrieval-based approaches were successfully explored in the context of
general conversational systems, but have received limited attention in recent
years for CRS. In this work, we re-assess the potential of such approaches and
design and evaluate a novel technique for response retrieval and ranking. A
user study (N=90) revealed that the responses by our system were on average of
higher quality than those of two recent generation-based systems. We
furthermore found that the quality ranking of the two generation-based
approaches is not aligned with the results from the literature, which points to
open methodological questions. Overall, our research underlines that
retrieval-based approaches should be considered an alternative or complement to
language generation approaches.Comment: 29 pages, 5 figures, 7 table
On Molecular Topological Properties of Dendrimers
Topological indices are numerical parameters of a graph which characterize its topology and are usually graph invariant. In QSAR/QSPR study, physico-chemical properties and topological indices such as Randi\'{c}, atom-bond connectivity and geometric-arithmetic index are used to predict the bioactivity of different chemical compounds. Graph theory has found a considerable use in this area of research.
In this paper, we study the degree based molecular topological indices like and for certain families of dendrimers. We derive the analytical closed formulae for these classes of dendrimers.The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author