2 papers
cs.IR2026
SteerEval: A Framework for Evaluating Steerability with Natural Language Profiles for Recommendation
Joyce Zhou, Weijie Zhou, Doug Turnbull +1
Natural-language user profiles have recently attracted attention not only for improved interpretability, but also for their potential to make recommender systems more steerable. By…
cs.IR2025
End-to-end Training for Recommendation with Language-based User Profiles
Zhaolin Gao, Joyce Zhou, Yijia Dai +1
There is a growing interest in natural language-based user profiles for recommender systems, which aims to enhance transparency and scrutability compared with embedding-based metho…