ChatShop: Interactive Information Seeking with Language Agents

arXiv:2404.09911v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The desire and ability to seek new information strategically are fundamental to human learning but often overlooked in current language agent development. Using a web shopping task as an example, we show that it can be reformulated and solved as a retrieval task without a requirement of interactive information seeking. We then redesign the task to introduce a new role of shopper, serving as a realistically constrained communication channel. The agents in our proposed ChatShop …

abstract agent agents arxiv cs.cl current development example human information interactive language retrieval shopping show type web