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In this paper, we address the problem of evaluating whether results served by an e-commerce search engine for a query are good or not. This is a critical question in evaluating any e-commerce search engine. While this question is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Rohan Kumar , Mohit Kumar , Neil Shah , Christos Faloutsos

Product search plays an essential role in eCommerce. It was treated as a special type of information retrieval problem. Most existing works make use of historical data to improve the search performance, which do not take the opportunity to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Zixuan Li , Lizi Liao , Tat-Seng Chua

E-commerce web applications are almost ubiquitous in our day to day life, however as useful as they are, most of them have little to no adaptation to user needs, which in turn can cause both lower conversion rates as well as unsatisfied…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Mihai Cristian Pîrvu , Alexandra Anghel

Natural Language Search (NLS) extends the capabilities of search engines that perform keyword search allowing users to issue queries in a more "natural" language. The engine tries to understand the meaning of the queries and to map the…

Recent advances in conversational systems have changed the search paradigm. Traditionally, a user poses a query to a search engine that returns an answer based on its index, possibly leveraging external knowledge bases and conditioning the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Tom Kenter , Maarten de Rijke

The conversational search paradigm introduces a step change over the traditional search paradigm by allowing users to interact with search agents in a multi-turn and natural fashion. The conversation flows naturally and is usually centered…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Mariana Leite , Rafael Ferreira , David Semedo , João Magalhães

Conversational Machine Comprehension (CMC), a research track in conversational AI, expects the machine to understand an open-domain natural language text and thereafter engage in a multi-turn conversation to answer questions related to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Somil Gupta , Bhanu Pratap Singh Rawat , Hong Yu

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

This study aims to inspect and evaluate the integration of database queries and their use in e-commerce product searches. It has been observed that e-commerce is one of the most prominent trends, which have been emerged in the business…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Mohd Muntjir , Ahmad Tasnim Siddiqui

Existing conversational models are handled by a database(DB) and API based systems. However, very often users' questions require information that cannot be handled by such systems. Nonetheless, answers to these questions are available in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Raja Kumar

A success factor for modern companies in the age of Digital Marketing is to understand how customers think and behave based on their online shopping patterns. While the conventional method of gathering consumer insights through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Sohini Roychowdhury , Wenxi Li , Ebrahim Alareqi , Akhilesh Pandita , Ao Liu , Joakim Soderberg

Dialog state tracking is used to estimate the current belief state of a dialog given all the preceding conversation. Machine reading comprehension, on the other hand, focuses on building systems that read passages of text and answer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Shuyang Gao , Abhishek Sethi , Sanchit Agarwal , Tagyoung Chung , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Effective conversational search demands a deep understanding of user intent across multiple dialogue turns. Users frequently use abbreviations and shift topics in the middle of conversations, posing challenges for conventional retrievers.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Seunghan Yang , Juntae Lee , Jihwan Bang , Kyuhong Shim , Minsoo Kim , Simyung Chang

E commerce refers to the utilization of electronic data transmission for enhancing business processes and implementing business strategies. Explicit components of e commerce include providing after sales services, promoting services or…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Ahmad Tasnim Siddiqui , Mohd. Muntjir

Modern e-commerce platforms offer vast product selections, making it difficult for customers to find items that they like and that are relevant to their current session intent. This is why it is key for e-commerce platforms to have near…

The tracking-by-detection framework requires a set of positive and negative training samples to learn robust tracking models for precise localization of target objects. However, existing tracking models mostly treat different samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Xiao Wang , Chenglong Li , Rui Yang , Tianzhu Zhang , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

Slot filling is a critical task in natural language understanding (NLU) for dialog systems. State-of-the-art approaches treat it as a sequence labeling problem and adopt such models as BiLSTM-CRF. While these models work relatively well on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Yu Gong , Xusheng Luo , Yu Zhu , Wenwu Ou , Zhao Li , Muhua Zhu , Kenny Q. Zhu , Lu Duan , Xi Chen

We present a novel approach to dialogue state tracking and referring expression resolution tasks. Successful contextual understanding of multi-turn spoken dialogues requires resolving referring expressions across turns and tracking the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Pushpendre Rastogi , Arpit Gupta , Tongfei Chen , Lambert Mathias

E-commerce query understanding is the process of inferring the shopping intent of customers by extracting semantic meaning from their search queries. The recent progress of pre-trained masked language models (MLM) in natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Haoming Jiang , Tianyu Cao , Zheng Li , Chen Luo , Xianfeng Tang , Qingyu Yin , Danqing Zhang , Rahul Goutam , Bing Yin

Any organization needs to improve their products, services, and processes. In this context, engaging with customers and understanding their journey is essential. Organizations have leveraged various techniques and technologies to support…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Sahar Moradizeyveh