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Finding relevant products given a user query is pivotal to an e-commerce platform, as it can drive shopping behavior and generate revenue. The challenge lies in accurately predicting the correlation between queries and products. Recently,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Ge Zhang , Rohan Deepak Ajwani , Yaochen Hu , Tony Zheng , Hongjian Gu , Wei Guo , Mark Coates , Yingxue Zhang

E-commerce search engines often rely solely on product titles as input for ranking models with latency constraints. However, this approach can result in suboptimal relevance predictions, as product titles often lack sufficient detail to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Nitin Yadav , Changsung Kang , Hongwei Shang , Ming Sun

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

Online Reputation Monitoring (ORM) is concerned with the use of computational tools to measure the reputation of entities online, such as politicians or companies. In practice, current ORM methods are constrained to the generation of data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Pedro Saleiro

This study introduces Query Attribute Modeling (QAM), a hybrid framework that enhances search precision and relevance by decomposing open text queries into structured metadata tags and semantic elements. QAM addresses traditional search…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Karthik Menon , Batool Arhamna Haider , Muhammad Arham , Kanwal Mehreen , Ram Mohan Rao Kadiyala , Hamza Farooq

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

Embedding-based Retrieval (EBR) in e-commerce search is a powerful search retrieval technique to address semantic matches between search queries and products. However, commercial search engines like Facebook Marketplace Search are complex…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Yunzhong He , Yuxin Tian , Mengjiao Wang , Feier Chen , Licheng Yu , Maolong Tang , Congcong Chen , Ning Zhang , Bin Kuang , Arul Prakash

Entity-Relationship (E-R) Search is a complex case of Entity Search where the goal is to search for multiple unknown entities and relationships connecting them. We assume that a E-R query can be decomposed as a sequence of sub-queries each…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Pedro Saleiro , Natasa Milic-Frayling , Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues , Carlos Soares

Query-product relevance prediction is a core task in e-commerce search. BERT-based models excel at semantic matching but lack complex reasoning capabilities. While Large Language Models (LLMs) are explored, most still use discriminative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Chenhe Dong , Shaowei Yao , Pengkun Jiao , Jianhui Yang , Yiming Jin , Zerui Huang , Xiaojiang Zhou , Dan Ou , Haihong Tang , Bo Zheng

E-commerce search systems rely on modeling user behavior to estimate item relevance and user preference, which are typically assumed to be stable and independently learnable signals. However, in practice, user interactions are jointly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Haoqian Zhang , Ziyuan Yang , Yi Zhang

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

The Unbiased Learning-to-Rank framework has been recently proposed as a general approach to systematically remove biases, such as position bias, from learning-to-rank models. The method takes two steps - estimating click propensities and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Grigor Aslanyan , Utkarsh Porwal

Some Question Answering (QA) systems rely on knowledge bases (KBs) to provide accurate answers. Entity Linking (EL) plays a critical role in linking natural language mentions to KB entries. However, most existing EL methods are designed for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yajie Luo , Yihong Wu , Muzhi Li , Jia Ao Sun , Xinyu Wang , Liheng Ma , Yingxue Zhang , Jian-Yun Nie

In this work, we address the brand entity linking problem for e-commerce search queries. The entity linking task is done by either i)a two-stage process consisting of entity mention detection followed by entity disambiguation or ii) an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Dong Liu , Sreyashi Nag

An increasing number of entities are described by interlinked data rather than documents on the Web. Entity Resolution (ER) aims to identify descriptions of the same real-world entity within one or across knowledge bases in the Web of data.…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Vasilis Efthymiou , Kostas Stefanidis , Vassilis Christophides

Traditional sparse and dense retrieval methods struggle to leverage general world knowledge and often fail to capture the nuanced features of queries and products. With the advent of large language models (LLMs), industrial search systems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Ming Pang , Chunyuan Yuan , Xiaoyu He , Zheng Fang , Donghao Xie , Fanyi Qu , Xue Jiang , Changping Peng , Zhangang Lin , Ching Law , Jingping Shao

Entity Matching (EM)--the task of determining whether two data records refer to the same real-world entity--is a core task in data integration. Recent advances in deep learning have set a new standard for EM, particularly through…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Nicholas Pulsone , Roee Shraga , Gregory Goren

Personalized search has been a hot research topic for many years and has been widely used in e-commerce. This paper describes our solution to tackle the challenge of personalized e-commerce search at CIKM Cup 2016. The goal of this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Chen Wu , Ming Yan , Luo Si

Multi-table entity matching (MEM) addresses the limitations of dual-table approaches by enabling simultaneous identification of equivalent entities across multiple data sources without unique identifiers. However, existing methods relying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yingkai Tang , Taoyu Su , Wenyuan Zhang , Xiaoyang Guo , Tingwen Liu

Reward models (RMs) are essential for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences. However, they often struggle with capturing complex human preferences and generalizing to unseen data. To address these challenges, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Anamika Lochab , Ruqi Zhang