AI RESEARCH

Intent-Driven Semantic ID Generation for Grounded Conversational News Recommendation

arXiv CS.CL

ArXi:2605.07613v1 Announce Type: new Conversational news recommendation requires grounding each suggestion in a rapidly evolving article corpus while addressing implicit user intents that lack explicit retrievable keywords. To characterize this scenario, we identify 6 intent types from production dialogues: five are implicit and pose fundamental challenges to standard RAG pipelines, forming a critical retrieve-first bottleneck. To address these issues, we