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User intent understanding is a crucial step in designing both conversational agents and search engines. Detecting or inferring user intent is challenging, since the user utterances or queries can be short, ambiguous, and contextually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Ali Ahmadvand

Sustaining users' interest and keeping them engaged in the platform is very important for the success of an e-commerce business. A session encompasses different activities of a user between logging into the platform and logging out or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Diddigi Raghu Ram Bharadwaj , Lakshya Kumar , Saif Jawaid , Sreekanth Vempati

In this work, we aim to learn multi-level user intents from the co-interacted patterns of items, so as to obtain high-quality representations of users and items and further enhance the recommendation performance. Towards this end, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Wei Yinwei , Wang Xiang , He Xiangnan , Nie Liqiang , Rui Yong , Chua Tat-Seng

Query Understanding is a semantic search method that can classify tokens in a customer's search query to entities such as Product, Brand, etc. This method can overcome the limitations of bag-of-words methods but requires an ontology. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Aliasgar Kutiyanawala , Prateek Verma , Zheng , Yan

This paper illustrates the technologies of user next intent prediction with a concept knowledge graph. The system has been deployed on the Web at Alipay, serving more than 100 million daily active users. To explicitly characterize user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Yacheng He , Qianghuai Jia , Lin Yuan , Ruopeng Li , Yixin Ou , Ningyu Zhang

Taxonomies have been widely used in various domains to underpin numerous applications. Specially, product taxonomies serve an essential role in the e-commerce domain for the recommendation, browsing, and query understanding. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Sijie Cheng , Zhouhong Gu , Bang Liu , Rui Xie , Wei Wu , Yanghua Xiao

Solving cold-start problems is indispensable to provide meaningful recommendation results for new users and items. Under sparsely observed data, unobserved user-item pairs are also a vital source for distilling latent users' information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Riku Togashi , Mayu Otani , Shin'ichi Satoh

In this paper, we propose a new product knowledge graph (PKG) embedding approach for learning the intrinsic product relations as product knowledge for e-commerce. We define the key entities and summarize the pivotal product relations that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Da Xu , Chuanwei Ruan , Evren Korpeoglu , Sushant Kumar , Kannan Achan

Search-based recommendation is one of the most critical application scenarios in e-commerce platforms. Users' complex search contexts--such as spatiotemporal factors, historical interactions, and current query's information--constitute an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Zhiding Liu , Ben Chen , Mingyue Cheng , Enhong Chen , Li Li , Chenyi Lei , Wenwu Ou , Han Li , Kun Gai

Requirement Analysis is an important phase in software development which deals with understanding the customers requirements. It includes the collection of information from the customer, which is regarding the customers requirements and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Abhishek Kotnala , R. Selvarani

An accurate understanding of a user's query intent can help improve the performance of downstream tasks such as query scoping and ranking. In the e-commerce domain, recent work in query understanding focuses on the query to product-category…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Ali Ahmadvand , Surya Kallumadi , Faizan Javed , Eugene Agichtein

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

In recent years, knowledge graphs have been widely applied to organize data in a uniform way and enhance many tasks that require knowledge, for example, online shopping which has greatly facilitated people's life. As a backbone for online…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Wen Zhang , Chi-Man Wong , Ganqiang Ye , Bo Wen , Wei Zhang , Huajun Chen

Malicious bots pose a growing threat to e-commerce platforms by scraping data, hoarding inventory, and perpetrating fraud. Traditional bot mitigation techniques, including IP blacklists and CAPTCHA-based challenges, are increasingly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Sichen Zhao , Zhiming Xue , Yalun Qi , Xianling Zeng , Zihan Yu

Developing shopping experiences that delight the customer requires businesses to understand customer taste. This work reports a method to learn the shopping preferences of frequent shoppers to an online gift store by combining ideas from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Rajiv Sambasivan , Mark Burgess , Jörg Schad , Arthur Keen , Christopher Woodward , Alexander Geenen , Sachin Sharma

This paper designs and implements an explainable recommendation model that integrates knowledge graphs with structure-aware attention mechanisms. The model is built on graph neural networks and incorporates a multi-hop neighbor aggregation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Shuangquan Lyu , Ming Wang , Huajun Zhang , Jiasen Zheng , Junjiang Lin , Xiaoxuan Sun

A scaleable modelling framework for the consumer intent within the setting of e-Commerce is presented. The methodology applies contextualisation through embeddings borrowed from Natural Language Processing. By considering the user session…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Hassan Elhabbak , Benoît Descamps , Elisabeth Fischer , Sakis Athanasiadis

Pre-sales customer service is of importance to E-commerce platforms as it contributes to optimizing customers' buying process. To better serve users, we propose AliMe KG, a domain knowledge graph in E-commerce that captures user problems,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Feng-Lin Li , Hehong Chen , Guohai Xu , Tian Qiu , Feng Ji , Ji Zhang , Haiqing Chen

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

We consider the problem of learning from revealed preferences in an online setting. In our framework, each period a consumer buys an optimal bundle of goods from a merchant according to her (linear) utility function and current prices,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Kareem Amin , Rachel Cummings , Lili Dworkin , Michael Kearns , Aaron Roth