A Framework for Building Chat-based Recommender Systems

Chat-based recommender systems are getting more and more attention in recent time given their natural interaction with the user. Indeed, chat-based recommender systems implement a paradigm where users define their preferences and discover items that best fit their needs through a dialog. A chat-based recommender system can be easily integrated in platforms such as social networks, e-commerce websites, bank websites. Therefore, the preferences can be directly provided by the users during the dialog or can be automatically extracted from their activities on the same platform that hosts the chatbot [3]. In this demo, we present a framework for building chat-based recommender systems. The framework, based on a content-based recommendation algorithm, is independent from the domain.