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Product search has been a crucial entry point to serve people shopping online. Most existing personalized product models follow the paradigm of representing and matching user intents and items in the semantic space, where finer-grained…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Keping Bi , Qingyao Ai , W. Bruce Croft

In online marketplaces like Airbnb, users frequently engage in comparison shopping before making purchase decisions. Despite the prevalence of this behavior, a significant disconnect persists between mainstream e-commerce search engines and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Jie Tang , Daochen Zha , Xin Liu , Huiji Gao , Liwei He , Stephanie Moyerman , Sanjeev Katariya

Learning to Rank (LTR) technique is ubiquitous in the Information Retrieval system nowadays, especially in the Search Ranking application. The query-item relevance labels typically used to train the ranking model are often noisy…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Debabrata Mahapatra , Chaosheng Dong , Yetian Chen , Deqiang Meng , Michinari Momma

We present QueryNER, a manually-annotated dataset and accompanying model for e-commerce query segmentation. Prior work in sequence labeling for e-commerce has largely addressed aspect-value extraction which focuses on extracting portions of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Chester Palen-Michel , Lizzie Liang , Zhe Wu , Constantine Lignos

The problem of relevance ranking consists of sorting a set of objects with respect to a given criterion. Since users may prefer different relevance criteria, the ranking algorithms should be adaptable to the user needs. Two main approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Leonardo Rigutini , Tiziano Papini , Marco Maggini , Franco Scarselli

This paper proposes a novel method to improve the accuracy of product search in e-commerce by utilizing a cluster language model. The method aims to address the limitations of the bi-encoder architecture while maintaining a minimal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Duleep Rathgamage Don , Ying Xie , Le Yu , Simon Hughes , Yun Zhu

Ranking systems form the basis for online search engines and recommendation services. They process large collections of items, for instance web pages or e-commerce products, and present the user with a small ordered selection. The goal of a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Harrie Oosterhuis

The LETOR website contains three information retrieval datasets used as a benchmark for testing machine learning ideas for ranking. Algorithms participating in the challenge are required to assign score values to search results for a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2008-10-16 Nir Ailon

In e-commerce, high consideration search missions typically require careful and elaborate decision making, and involve a substantial research investment from customers. We consider the task of identifying High Consideration (HC) queries.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Zhiyu Chen , Jason Choi , Besnik Fetahu , Shervin Malmasi

Online retailers often offer a vast choice of products to their customers to filter and browse through. The order in which the products are listed depends on the ranking algorithm employed in the online shop. State-of-the-art ranking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Andrea Papenmeier , Daniel Hienert , Firas Sabbah , Norbert Fuhr , Dagmar Kern

Nowadays, recommender systems and search engines play an integral role in fashion e-commerce. Still, many challenges lie ahead, and this study tries to tackle some. This article first suggests a content-based fashion recommender system that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Seyed Omid Mohammadi , Hossein Bodaghi , Ahmad Kalhor

Customer shopping behavioral features are core to product search ranking models in eCommerce. In this paper, we investigate the effect of lookback time windows when aggregating these features at the (query, product) level over history. By…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Qi Liu , Atul Singh , Jingbo Liu , Cun Mu , Zheng Yan , Jan Pedersen

Learning-to-Rank (LTR) is a supervised machine learning approach that constructs models specifically designed to order a set of items or documents based on their relevance or importance to a given query or context. Despite significant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Camilo Gomez , Pengyang Wang , Yanjie Fu

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

Unbiased Learning to Rank (ULTR) that learns to rank documents with biased user feedback data is a well-known challenge in information retrieval. Existing methods in unbiased learning to rank typically rely on click modeling or inverse…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Dan Luo , Lixin Zou , Qingyao Ai , Zhiyu Chen , Dawei Yin , Brian D. Davison

Improved search quality enhances users' satisfaction, which directly impacts sales growth of an E-Commerce (E-Com) platform. Traditional Learning to Rank (LTR) algorithms require relevance judgments on products. In E-Com, getting such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Muhammad Umer Anwaar , Dmytro Rybalko , Martin Kleinsteuber

Efficient search is a critical component for an e-commerce platform with an innumerable number of products. Every day millions of users search for products pertaining to their needs. Thus, showing the relevant products on the top will…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Lakshya Kumar , Sagnik Sarkar

Large-scale e-commerce search must surface a broad set of items from a vast catalog, ranging from bestselling products to new, trending, or seasonal items. Modern systems therefore rely on multiple specialized retrieval channels to surface…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Aditya Gaydhani , Guangyue Xu , Dhanush Kamath , Ankit Singh , Alex Li

In e-commerce shopping, aligning search results with a buyer's immediate needs and preferences presents a significant challenge, particularly in adapting search results throughout the buyer's shopping journey as they move from the initial…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Taoran Sheng , Sathappan Muthiah , Atiq Islam , Jinming Feng

The quality of non-default ranking on e-commerce platforms, such as based on ascending item price or descending historical sales volume, often suffers from acute relevance problems, since the irrelevant items are much easier to be exposed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Yunjiang Jiang , Yue Shang , Hongwei Shen , Wen-Yun Yang , Yun Xiao