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Nowadays on E-commerce platforms, products are presented to the customers with multiple modalities. These multiple modalities are significant for a retrieval system while providing attracted products for customers. Therefore, how to take…

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Despite the recent developments in the field of cross-modal retrieval, there has been less research focusing on low-resource languages due to the lack of manually annotated datasets. In this paper, we propose a noise-robust cross-lingual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Yabing Wang , Jianfeng Dong , Tianxiang Liang , Minsong Zhang , Rui Cai , Xun Wang

Query and product relevance prediction is a critical component for ensuring a smooth user experience in e-commerce search. Traditional studies mainly focus on BERT-based models to assess the semantic relevance between queries and products.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Tian Tang , Zhixing Tian , Zhenyu Zhu , Chenyang Wang , Haiqing Hu , Guoyu Tang , Lin Liu , Sulong Xu

Cross-lingual named entity recognition (CrossNER) faces challenges stemming from uneven performance due to the scarcity of multilingual corpora, especially for non-English data. While prior efforts mainly focus on data-driven transfer…

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Cross-lingual summarization (CLS) aims to generate a summary for the source text in a different target language. Currently, instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs) excel at various English tasks. However, unlike languages such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Zhecheng Li , Yiwei Wang , Bryan Hooi , Yujun Cai , Naifan Cheung , Nanyun Peng , Kai-wei Chang

Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) aims to mine and transfer users' sequential preferences across different domains to alleviate the long-standing cold-start issue. Traditional CDSR models capture collaborative information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Tingjia Shen , Hao Wang , Jiaqing Zhang , Sirui Zhao , Liangyue Li , Zulong Chen , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Conversational user queries are increasingly challenging traditional e-commerce platforms, whose search systems are typically optimized for keyword-based queries. We present an LLM-based semantic search framework that effectively captures…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Emad Siddiqui , Venkatesh Terikuti , Xuan Lu

The evaluation of cross-lingual semantic search models is often limited to existing datasets from tasks such as information retrieval and semantic textual similarity. We introduce Cross-Lingual Semantic Discrimination (CLSD), a lightweight…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Andrianos Michail , Simon Clematide , Rico Sennrich

The field of cross-lingual sentence embeddings has recently experienced significant advancements, but research concerning low-resource languages has lagged due to the scarcity of parallel corpora. This paper shows that cross-lingual word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Zhongtao Miao , Qiyu Wu , Kaiyan Zhao , Zilong Wu , Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

Though the community has made great progress on Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) task, most of the previous works are solving English-based MRC problems, and there are few efforts on other languages mainly due to the lack of large-scale…

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Transformer-based entity matching methods have significantly moved the state of the art for less-structured matching tasks such as matching product offers in e-commerce. In order to excel at these tasks, Transformer-based matching methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Ralph Peeters , Christian Bizer

Machine translation in low-resource language pairs faces significant challenges due to the scarcity of parallel corpora and linguistic resources. This study focuses on the case of English-Marathi language pairs, where existing datasets are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Nidhi Kowtal , Tejas Deshpande , Raviraj Joshi

Cross-lingual text classification aims at training a classifier on the source language and transferring the knowledge to target languages, which is very useful for low-resource languages. Recent multilingual pretrained language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Ziyun Wang , Xuan Liu , Peiji Yang , Shixing Liu , Zhisheng Wang

Existing multilingual embedding models often encounter challenges in cross-lingual scenarios due to imbalanced linguistic resources and less consideration of cross-lingual alignment during training. Although standardized contrastive…

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The remarkable ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to understand and follow instructions has sometimes been limited by their in-context learning (ICL) performance in low-resource languages. To address this, we introduce a novel approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Xiaoqian Li , Ercong Nie , Sheng Liang

Cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) enables access to multilingual knowledge but remains challenging due to disparities in resources, scripts, and weak cross-lingual semantic alignment in embedding models. Existing pipelines often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Roksana Goworek , Olivia Macmillan-Scott , Eda B. Özyiğit

Recent work on predicting category structure with distributional models, using either static word embeddings (Heyman and Heyman, 2019) or contextualized language models (CLMs) (Misra et al., 2021), report low correlations with human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Joseph Renner , Pascal Denis , Rémi Gilleron , Angèle Brunellière

Efficient semantic access to industrial product data is a key enabler for factory automation and emerging LLM-based agent workflows, where both human engineers and autonomous agents must identify suitable components from highly structured…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Nico Baumgart , Markus Lange-Hegermann , Jan Henze

In large scale e-commerce marketplaces, duplicate product listings frequently cause consumer confusion and operational inefficiencies, degrading trust on the platform and increasing costs. Traditional keyword-based search methodologies…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Aysenur Kulunk , Berk Taskin , M. Furkan Eseoglu , H. Bahadir Sahin

As the number of open and shared scientific datasets on the Internet increases under the open science movement, efficiently retrieving these datasets is a crucial task in information retrieval (IR) research. In recent years, the development…

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