Conversational Framework for Web Search and Recommendations

In this paper, we describe a Conversational Interaction framework as an innovative and natural approach to facilitate easier information access by combining web search and recommendations. This framework includes an intelligent information agent (Cobot) in the conversation that provides contextually relevant social and web search recommendations. This setup leverages the information discovery process by integrating web information retrieval along with proactive connections to relevant users who can participate in real time conversations. We describe the conversational framework and report some preliminary experiments in the system.