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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

Existing benchmarks in e-commerce primarily focus on basic user intents, such as finding or purchasing products. However, real-world users often pursue more complex goals, such as applying vouchers, managing budgets, and finding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Jiangyuan Wang , Kejun Xiao , Qi Sun , Huaipeng Zhao , Tao Luo , Jian Dong Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng

Quality product descriptions are critical for providing competitive customer experience in an e-commerce platform. An accurate and attractive description not only helps customers make an informed decision but also improves the likelihood of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Qibin Chen , Junyang Lin , Yichang Zhang , Hongxia Yang , Jingren Zhou , Jie Tang

Understanding users' intentions in e-commerce platforms requires commonsense knowledge. In this paper, we present FolkScope, an intention knowledge graph construction framework to reveal the structure of humans' minds about purchasing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Changlong Yu , Weiqi Wang , Xin Liu , Jiaxin Bai , Yangqiu Song , Zheng Li , Yifan Gao , Tianyu Cao , Bing Yin

Personalized recommendation benefits users in accessing contents of interests effectively. Current research on recommender systems mostly focuses on matching users with proper items based on user interests. However, significant efforts are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Yingqiang Ge , Shuya Zhao , Honglu Zhou , Changhua Pei , Fei Sun , Wenwu Ou , Yongfeng Zhang

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

The proliferation of e-commerce has made web shopping platforms key gateways for customers navigating the vast digital marketplace. Yet this rapid expansion has led to a noisy and fragmented information environment, increasing cognitive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Sunghwan Kim , Ryang Heo , Yongsik Seo , Jinyoung Yeo , Dongha Lee

In e-commerce websites like Taobao, brand is playing a more important role in influencing users' decision of click/purchase, partly because users are now attaching more importance to the quality of products and brand is an indicator of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Yu Zhu , Junxiong Zhu , Jie Hou , Yongliang Li , Beidou Wang , Ziyu Guan , Deng Cai

Understanding what online users may pay attention to is key to content recommendation and search services. These services will benefit from a highly structured and web-scale ontology of entities, concepts, events, topics and categories.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Bang Liu , Weidong Guo , Di Niu , Jinwen Luo , Chaoyue Wang , Zhen Wen , Yu Xu

In e-commerce websites, web mining web page recommendation technology has been widely used. However, recommendation solutions often cannot meet the actual application needs of online shopping users. To address this problem, this paper…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Wenchao Zhao , Xiaoyi Liu , Ruilin Xu , Lingxi Xiao , Muqing Li

This paper presents a novel approach to predicting buying intent and product demand in e-commerce settings, leveraging a Deep Q-Network (DQN) inspired architecture. In the rapidly evolving landscape of online retail, accurate prediction of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Aditi Madhusudan Jain

In e-commerce, a user tends to search for the desired product by issuing a query to the search engine and examining the retrieved results. If the search engine was successful in correctly understanding the user's query, it will return…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Saurav Manchanda , Mohit Sharma , George Karypis

Contemporary ways of doing business are heavily dependent on the e-Commerce/e-Business paradigm. The highest priority of an e-Commerce Web site's management is to assure pertinent Quality-of-Service (QoS) levels of their Web services…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-07-16 Ilija Hristoski , Pece Mitrevski

With the development of dialog techniques, conversational search has attracted more and more attention as it enables users to interact with the search engine in a natural and efficient manner. However, comparing with the natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Yunlun Yang , Yu Gong , Xi Chen

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

We present AliMe Assist, an intelligent assistant designed for creating an innovative online shopping experience in E-commerce. Based on question answering (QA), AliMe Assist offers assistance service, customer service, and chatting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Feng-Lin Li , Minghui Qiu , Haiqing Chen , Xiongwei Wang , Xing Gao , Jun Huang , Juwei Ren , Zhongzhou Zhao , Weipeng Zhao , Lei Wang , Guwei Jin , Wei Chu

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled new applications in e-commerce customer service. However, their capabilities remain constrained in complex, multimodal scenarios. We present MindFlow, the first open-source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Ming Gong , Xucheng Huang , Chenghan Yang , Xianhan Peng , Haoxin Wang , Yang Liu , Ling Jiang

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

This paper provides some of the first large-scale descriptive evidence on how consumers adopt and use platform-embedded shopping AI in e-commerce. Using data on 31 million users of Ctrip, China's largest online travel platform, we study…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Se Yan , Han Zhong , Zemin , Zhong , Wenyu Zhou

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