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Product retrieval is the backbone of e-commerce search: for each user query, it identifies a high-recall candidate set from billions of items, laying the foundation for high-quality ranking and user experience. Despite extensive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Gui Ling , Weiyuan Li , Yue Jiang , Wenjun Peng , Xingxian Liu , Dongshuai Li , Fuyu Lv , Dan Ou , Haihong Tang

Nowadays e-commerce search has become an integral part of many people's shopping routines. One critical challenge in today's e-commerce search is the semantic matching problem where the relevant items may not contain the exact terms in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Yiming Qiu , Kang Zhang , Han Zhang , Songlin Wang , Sulong Xu , Yun Xiao , Bo Long , Wen-Yun Yang

In sponsored search advertising, keywords serve as an essential bridge linking advertisers, search users and search engines. Advertisers have to deal with a series of keyword decisions throughout the entire lifecycle of search advertising…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Yanwu Yang , Bernard J. Jansen , Yinghui Yang , Xunhua Guo , Daniel Zeng

Personalized search has been a hot research topic for many years and has been widely used in e-commerce. This paper describes our solution to tackle the challenge of personalized e-commerce search at CIKM Cup 2016. The goal of this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Chen Wu , Ming Yan , Luo Si

Academic Search is a search task aimed to manage and retrieve scientific documents like journal articles and conference papers. Personalization in this context meets individual researchers' needs by leveraging, through user profiles, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Pranav Kasela , Gabriella Pasi , Raffaele Perego

User queries in e-commerce search are often vague, short, and underspecified, making it difficult for retrieval systems to match them accurately against structured product catalogs. This challenge is amplified by the one-to-many nature of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Yipeng Zhang , Bowen Liu , Xiaoshuang Zhang , Aritra Mandal , Canran Xu , Zhe Wu

Query and product relevance prediction is a critical component for ensuring a smooth user experience in e-commerce search. Traditional studies mainly focus on BERT-based models to assess the semantic relevance between queries and products.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Tian Tang , Zhixing Tian , Zhenyu Zhu , Chenyang Wang , Haiqing Hu , Guoyu Tang , Lin Liu , Sulong Xu

Search algorithms and user query relevance have given LLMs the ability to return relevant information, but the effect of content phrasing on ad visibility remains underexplored. We investigate how LLM-based rewriting of advertisements can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Chloe Ho , Ishneet Sukhvinder Singh , Diya Sharma , Tanvi Reddy Anumandla , Michael Lu , Vasu Sharma , Kevin Zhu

Product search is one of the most popular methods for people to discover and purchase products on e-commerce websites. Because personal preferences often have an important influence on the purchase decision of each customer, it is intuitive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Qingyao Ai , Daniel N. Hill , S. V. N. Vishwanathan , W. Bruce Croft

The search engine plays a fundamental role in online e-commerce systems, to help users find the products they want from the massive product collections. Relevance is an essential requirement for e-commerce search, since showing products…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Shaowei Yao , Jiwei Tan , Xi Chen , Keping Yang , Rong Xiao , Hongbo Deng , Xiaojun Wan

Sponsored search is a multi-billion dollar industry and makes up a major source of revenue for search engines (SE). click-through-rate (CTR) estimation plays a crucial role for ads selection, and greatly affects the SE revenue, advertiser…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Afroze Ibrahim Baqapuri , Ilya Trofimov

We introduce deep learning models to the two most important stages in product search at JD.com, one of the largest e-commerce platforms in the world. Specifically, we outline the design of a deep learning system that retrieves semantically…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Rui Li , Yunjiang Jiang , Wenyun Yang , Guoyu Tang , Songlin Wang , Chaoyi Ma , Wei He , Xi Xiong , Yun Xiao , Eric Yihong Zhao

Information retrieval systems such as open web search and recommendation systems are ubiquitous and significantly impact how people receive and consume online information. Previous research has shown the importance of fairness in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Fumian Chen , Hui Fang

Predicting the click-through rate of an advertisement is a critical component of online advertising platforms. In sponsored search, the click-through rate estimates the probability that a displayed advertisement is clicked by a user after…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-10 Bora Edizel , Amin Mantrach , Xiao Bai

In modern digital marketing, the growing complexity of advertisement data demands intelligent systems capable of understanding semantic relationships among products, audiences, and advertising content. To address this challenge, this paper…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Tangtang Wang , Kaijie Zhang , Kuangcong Liu

Blogs and social networking sites serve as a platform to the users for expressing their interests, ideas and thoughts. Targeted marketing uses the recommendation systems for suggesting their services and products to the users or clients. So…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Usama Ahmed Jamal

With a vast number of items, web-pages, and news to choose from, online services and the customers both benefit tremendously from personalized recommender systems. Such systems however provide great opportunities for targeted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-04-16 Subhashini Krishnasamy , Rajat Sen , Sewoong Oh , Sanjay Shakkottai

Recommender systems must balance personalization, diversity, and robustness to cold-start scenarios to remain effective in dynamic content environments. This paper introduces an adaptive, exploration-based recommendation framework that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Edoardo Bianchi

Diverse and enriched data sources are essential for commercial ads-recommendation models to accurately assess user interest both before and after engagement with content. While extended user-engagement histories can improve the prediction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Sohini Roychowdhury , Doris Wang , Qian Ge , Joy Mu , Srihari Reddy

In product search, users tend to browse results on multiple search result pages (SERPs) (e.g., for queries on clothing and shoes) before deciding which item to purchase. Users' clicks can be considered as implicit feedback which indicates…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Keping Bi , Choon Hui Teo , Yesh Dattatreya , Vijai Mohan , W. Bruce Croft