Suryaa Veerabathiran Seran

Dialogue-Aware Music Recommendation via Fused Retrieval and Learned Ranking for the TalkPlayData Challenge

We present suryaaseran1, our conversational music recommender for the TalkPlayData Challenge (ACM RecSys 2026) that treats each dialogue turn’s user reactions as a preference-elicitation signal for both retrieval and ranking. The dataset’s goal-progress feedback is delayed by one turn and includes rejected tracks logge...