2019

Deep Conversational Recommender in Travel

Liao, Lizi, Takanobu, Ryuichi, Ma, Yunshan et al.

Understand

When traveling to a foreign country, we are often in dire need of an intelligent conversational agent to provide instant and informative responses to our various queries.

However, to build such a travel agent is non-trivial.
First of all, travel naturally involves several sub-tasks such as hotel reservation, restaurant recommendation and taxi booking etc, which invokes the need for global topic control.
Secondly, the agent should consider various constraints like price or distance given by the user to recommend an appropriate venue.

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