ETRI Journal (Apr 2024)

Dialog-based multi-item recommendation using automatic evaluation

  • Euisok Chung,
  • Hyun Woo Kim,
  • Byunghyun Yoo,
  • Ran Han,
  • Jeongmin Yang,
  • Hwa Jeon Song

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4218/etrij.2022-0333
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 46, no. 2
pp. 277 – 289

Abstract

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In this paper, we describe a neural network-based application that recommends multiple items using dialog context input and simultaneously outputs a response sentence. Further, we describe a multi-item recommendation by specifying it as a set of clothing recommendations. For this, a multimodal fusion approach that can process both cloth-related text and images is required. We also examine achieving the requirements of downstream models using a pretrained language model. Moreover, we propose a gate-based multi-modal fusion and multiprompt learning based on a pretrained language model. Specifically, we propose an automatic evaluation technique to solve the one-to-many mapping problem of multi-item recommendations. A fashion-domain multimodal dataset based on Koreans is constructed and tested. Various experimental environment settings are verified using an automatic evaluation method. The results show that our proposed method can be used to obtain confidence scores for multi-item recommendation results, which is different from traditional accuracy evaluation.

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