We are very proud to share that Towards Empathetic Conversational Recommender Systems by Xiaoyu Zhang (Shandong University), Ruobing Xie (Tencent), Yougang Lyu (Shandong University and University of Amsterdam), Xin Xin (Shandong University), Pengjie Ren (Shandong University), Mingfei Liang (Tencent), Bo Zhang (Tencent), Zhanhui Kang (Tencent), Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam), and Zhaochun Ren (Leiden University) received the best paper award at RecSys 2024: 18th ACM
Conference on Recommender Systems, which is being held this week in Bari, Italy.

A link to the paper: https://irlab.science.uva.nl/wp-content/papercite-data/pdf/zhang-2024-towards.pdf.

Xiaoyu Zhang, Yougang Lyu, and Zhaochun Ren receiving the RecSys 2024 Best Paper Award.