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Query reformulation is the process by which a input search query is refined by the user to match documents outside the original top-n results. On average, roughly 50% of text search queries involve some form of reformulation, and term…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Kyle Xiao , Houdong Hu , Yan Wang

Retrieving all semantically relevant products from the product catalog is an important problem in E-commerce. Compared to web documents, product catalogs are more structured and sparse due to multi-instance fields that encode heterogeneous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Jason Ingyu Choi , Surya Kallumadi , Bhaskar Mitra , Eugene Agichtein , Faizan Javed

Effective query reformulation is pivotal in narrowing the gap between a user's exploratory search behavior and the identification of relevant products in e-commerce environments. While traditional approaches predominantly model query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jayanth Yetukuri , Mehran Elyasi , Samarth Agrawal , Aritra Mandal , Rui Kong , Harish Vempati , Ishita Khan

In e-commerce, a user tends to search for the desired product by issuing a query to the search engine and examining the retrieved results. If the search engine was successful in correctly understanding the user's query, it will return…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Saurav Manchanda , Mohit Sharma , George Karypis

Understanding and modeling buyer intent is a foundational challenge in optimizing search query reformulation within the dynamic landscape of e-commerce search systems. This work introduces a robust data pipeline designed to mine and analyze…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Jayanth Yetukuri , Ishita Khan

The major task of any e-commerce search engine is to retrieve the most relevant inventory items, which best match the user intent reflected in a query. This task is non-trivial due to many reasons, including ambiguous queries, misaligned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Md. Ahsanul Kabir , Mohammad Al Hasan , Aritra Mandal , Liyang Hao , Ishita Khan , Daniel Tunkelang , Zhe Wu

E-commerce search and recommendation usually operate on structured data such as product catalogs and taxonomies. However, creating better search and recommendation systems often requires a large variety of unstructured data including…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Haixun Wang , Taesik Na

Fixing software bugs and adding new features are two of the major maintenance tasks. Software bugs and features are reported as change requests. Developers consult these requests and often choose a few keywords from them as an ad hoc query.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy

Customer behavioral data significantly impacts e-commerce search systems. However, in the case of less common queries, the associated behavioral data tends to be sparse and noisy, offering inadequate support to the search mechanism. To…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Ziqi Zhang , Yupin Huang , Quan Deng , Jinghui Xiao , Vivek Mittal , Jingyuan Deng

Users of search systems often reformulate their queries by adding query terms to reflect their evolving information need or to more precisely express their information need when the system fails to surface relevant content. Analyzing these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Amifa Raj , Bhaskar Mitra , Nick Craswell , Michael D. Ekstrand

Accurate explicit and implicit product identification in search queries is critical for enhancing user experiences, especially at a company like Adobe which has over 50 products and covers queries across hundreds of tools. In this work, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Sanat Sharma , Jayant Kumar , Twisha Naik , Zhaoyu Lu , Arvind Srikantan , Tracy Holloway King

Conversational user queries are increasingly challenging traditional e-commerce platforms, whose search systems are typically optimized for keyword-based queries. We present an LLM-based semantic search framework that effectively captures…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Emad Siddiqui , Venkatesh Terikuti , Xuan Lu

The search of information in large text repositories has been plagued by the so-called document-query vocabulary gap, i.e. the semantic discordance between the contents in the stored document entities on the one hand and the human query on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Bhawani Selvaretnam , Mohammed Belkhatir

Product search is one of the most popular methods for customers to discover products online. Most existing studies on product search focus on developing effective retrieval models that rank items by their likelihood to be purchased. They,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Qingyao Ai , Yongfeng Zhang , Keping Bi , W. Bruce Croft

Context: Recent research indicates that Web queries written by software developers are not very successful in retrieving relevant results, performing measurably worse compared to general purpose Web queries. Most approaches up to this point…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Mia Mohammad Imran , Kostadin Damevski

During software maintenance, developers usually deal with a significant number of software change requests. As a part of this, they often formulate an initial query from the request texts, and then attempt to map the concepts discussed in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy

Delivering superior search services is crucial for enhancing customer experience and driving revenue growth. Conventionally, search systems model user behaviors by combining user preference and query item relevance statically, often through…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yejing Wang , Chi Zhang , Xiangyu Zhao , Qidong Liu , Maolin Wang , Xuetao Wei , Zitao Liu , Xing Shi , Xudong Yang , Ling Zhong , Wei Lin

We study the problem of semantic matching in product search, that is, given a customer query, retrieve all semantically related products from the catalog. Pure lexical matching via an inverted index falls short in this respect due to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Priyanka Nigam , Yiwei Song , Vijai Mohan , Vihan Lakshman , Weitian , Ding , Ankit Shingavi , Choon Hui Teo , Hao Gu , Bing Yin

Key to any research involving session search is the understanding of how a user's queries evolve throughout the session. When a user creates a query reformulation, he or she is consciously retaining terms from their original query, removing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-01-21 Marc Sloan , Hui Yang , Jun Wang

Search queries with superlatives (e.g., best, most popular) require comparing candidates across multiple dimensions, demanding linguistic understanding and domain knowledge. We show that LLMs can uncover latent intent behind these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yilun Zhu , Nikhita Vedula , Shervin Malmasi
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