[RecSys Challenge 2026] Tutorial Introduction Session for the Music Conversational Recommendation Challenge (Music-CRS)

[Noemi Mauro]

🎵 Tutorial Introduction Session for the Music Conversational Recommendation Challenge (Music-CRS)

Join us for an intermediate tutorial session dedicated to the Music Conversational Recommendation Challenge!

During this session, the sponsor team will introduce the challenge and provide practical details on the task, resources, evaluation setup, and participation process.

In this challenge, participants will build systems that:

Understand multi-turn conversations about music
Recommend relevant tracks
Generate natural and context-aware responses

📅 Date: May 25
🕙 Time: 10:00 AM CEST
🔗 Zoom link: https://siriusxm.zoom.us/launch/jc/91635970030

During the tutorial session, we will:

• review the evaluation code and baseline code,
• introduce available resources such as datasets and embeddings,
• explain the challenge setup and participation process, and
• answer questions from participants.

We welcome researchers, students, and practitioners interested in conversational AI and recommender systems.

Looking forward to seeing you there!