Large Language Models as Evaluators for Conversational Recommender Systems: Benchmarking System Performance from a User-Centric Perspective

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09493v2
• Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:46:28 GMT
• Title: Large Language Models as Evaluators for Conversational Recommender Systems: Benchmarking System Performance from a User-Centric Perspective
• Authors: Nuo Chen, Quanyu Dai, Xiaoyu Dong, Xiao-Ming Wu, Zhenhua Dong,
• Abstract summary: This study proposes an automated LLM-based CRS evaluation framework.<n>It builds upon existing research in human-computer interaction and psychology.<n>We use this framework to evaluate four different conversational recommender systems.
• Score: 38.940283784200005
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Conversational recommender systems (CRS) involve both recommendation and dialogue tasks, which makes their evaluation a unique challenge. Although past research has analyzed various factors that may affect user satisfaction with CRS interactions from the perspective of user studies, few evaluation metrics for CRS have been proposed. Recent studies have shown that LLMs can align with human preferences, and several LLM-based text quality evaluation measures have been introduced. However, the application of LLMs in CRS evaluation remains relatively limited. To address this research gap and advance the development of user-centric conversational recommender systems, this study proposes an automated LLM-based CRS evaluation framework, building upon existing research in human-computer interaction and psychology. The framework evaluates CRS from four dimensions: dialogue behavior, language expression, recommendation items, and response content. We use this framework to evaluate four different conversational recommender systems.

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