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Alternative recommender systems are critical for ecommerce companies. They guide customers to explore a massive product catalog and assist customers to find the right products among an overwhelming number of options. However, it is a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Mingming Guo , Nian Yan , Xiquan Cui , San He Wu , Unaiza Ahsan , Rebecca West , Khalifeh Al Jadda

Existing neural relevance models do not give enough consideration for query and item context information which diversifies the search results to adapt for personal preference. To bridge this gap, this paper presents a neural learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Deguang Kong , Daniel Zhou , Zhiheng Huang , Steph Sigalas

Relevance module plays a fundamental role in e-commerce search as they are responsible for selecting relevant products from thousands of items based on user queries, thereby enhancing users experience and efficiency. The traditional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Hai Zhu , Yuankai Guo , Ronggang Dou , Kai Liu

Nowadays e-commerce search has become an integral part of many people's shopping routines. Two critical challenges stay in today's e-commerce search: how to retrieve items that are semantically relevant but not exact matching to query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Han Zhang , Songlin Wang , Kang Zhang , Zhiling Tang , Yunjiang Jiang , Yun Xiao , Weipeng Yan , Wen-Yun Yang

Relevance plays a central role in information retrieval (IR), which has received extensive studies starting from the 20th century. The definition and the modeling of relevance has always been critical challenges in both information science…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Yixing Fan , Jiafeng Guo , Xinyu Ma , Ruqing Zhang , Yanyan Lan , Xueqi Cheng

E-Commerce (E-Com) search is an emerging important new application of information retrieval. Learning to Rank (LETOR) is a general effective strategy for optimizing search engines, and is thus also a key technology for E-Com search. While…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu , Parikshit Sondhi , ChengXiang Zhai

Instruction-following capabilities in LLMs have progressed significantly, enabling more complex user interactions through detailed prompts. However, retrieval systems have not matched these advances, most of them still relies on traditional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jianqun Zhou , Yuanlei Zheng , Wei Chen , Qianqian Zheng , Hui Su , Wei Zhang , Rui Meng , Xiaoyu Shen

Electronic commerce, or e-commerce, is the buying and selling of goods and services, or the transmitting of funds or data online. E-commerce platforms come in many kinds, with global players such as Amazon, Airbnb, Alibaba, eBay and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zhaochun Ren , Xiangnan He , Dawei Yin , Maarten de Rijke

This paper presents a novel approach for using clickthrough data to learn ranked retrieval functions for web search results. We observe that users searching the web often perform a sequence, or chain, of queries with a similar information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Filip Radlinski , Thorsten Joachims

Generative retrieval introduces a groundbreaking paradigm to document retrieval by directly generating the identifier of a pertinent document in response to a specific query. This paradigm has demonstrated considerable benefits and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Mingming Li , Huimu Wang , Zuxu Chen , Guangtao Nie , Yiming Qiu , Guoyu Tang , Lin Liu , Jingwei Zhuo

Relevance modeling between queries and items stands as a pivotal component in commercial search engines, directly affecting the user experience. Given the remarkable achievements of large language models (LLMs) in various natural language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Kaixin Wu , Yixin Ji , Zeyuan Chen , Qiang Wang , Cunxiang Wang , Hong Liu , Baijun Ji , Jia Xu , Zhongyi Liu , Jinjie Gu , Yuan Zhou , Linjian Mo

Correctly pricing products or services in an online marketplace presents a challenging problem and one of the critical factors for the success of the business. When users are looking to buy an item they typically search for it. Query…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Jiawei Wen , Hossein Vahabi , Mihajlo Grbovic

Recently, neural models for information retrieval are becoming increasingly popular. They provide effective approaches for product search due to their competitive advantages in semantic matching. However, it is challenging to use…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Yuan Zhang , Dong Wang , Yan Zhang

In this paper we address the explainability of web search engines. We propose two explainable elements on the search engine result page: a visualization of query term weights and a visualization of passage relevance. The idea is that search…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Ioannis Chios , Suzan Verberne

In e-commerce search, relevance between query and documents is an essential requirement for satisfying user experience. Different from traditional e-commerce platforms that offer products, users search on life service platforms such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Wen Zan , Yaopeng Han , Xiaotian Jiang , Yao Xiao , Yang Yang , Dayao Chen , Sheng Chen

Improving the quality of search results can significantly enhance users experience and engagement with search engines. In spite of several recent advancements in the fields of machine learning and data mining, correctly classifying items…

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

In this work, we address the challenge of multilingual category relevance judgment in e-commerce search, where traditional ensemble-based systems improve accuracy but at the cost of heavy training, inference, and maintenance complexity. To…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Haotao Xie , Ruilin Chen , Yicheng Wu , Zhan Zhao , Yuanyuan Liu

Modern search systems rely on a fast first stage retriever to fetch relevant items from a massive catalog of items. Deployed search systems often use user engagement signals to supervise bi-encoder retriever training at scale, because these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Shasvat Desai , Md Omar Faruk Rokon , Jhalak Nilesh Acharya , Isha Shah , Hong Yao , Utkarsh Porwal , Kuang-chih Lee

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