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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

Search is one of the most common platforms used to seek information. However, users mostly get overloaded with results whenever they use such a platform to resolve their queries. Nowadays, direct answers to queries are being provided as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Ankush Chopra , Shruti Agrawal , Sohom Ghosh

Customer-centric marketing campaigns generate a large portion of e-commerce website traffic for Walmart. As the scale of customer data grows larger, expanding the marketing audience to reach more customers is becoming more critical for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Yang Peng , Changzheng Liu , Wei Shen

This study aims to inspect and evaluate the integration of database queries and their use in e-commerce product searches. It has been observed that e-commerce is one of the most prominent trends, which have been emerged in the business…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Mohd Muntjir , Ahmad Tasnim Siddiqui

Understanding search queries is critical for shopping search engines to deliver a satisfying customer experience. Popular shopping search engines receive billions of unique queries yearly, each of which can depict any of hundreds of user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Mukul Kumar , Youna Hu , Will Headden , Rahul Goutam , Heran Lin , Bing Yin

In database-as-a-service platforms, automated verification of query equivalence helps eliminate redundant computation in the form of overlapping sub-queries. Researchers have proposed two pragmatic techniques to tackle this problem. The…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Qi Zhou , Joy Arulraj , Shamkant Navathe , William Harris , Jinpeng Wu

Relevance modeling aims to locate desirable items for corresponding queries, which is crucial for search engines to ensure user experience. Although most conventional approaches address this problem by assessing the semantic similarity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Zeyuan Chen , Wei Chen , Jia Xu , Zhongyi Liu , Wei Zhang

Logs of the interactions with a search engine show that users often reformulate their queries. Examining these reformulations shows that recommendations that precise the focus of a query are helpful, like those based on expansions of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-04-13 Sumio Fujita , Georges Dupret , Ricardo Baeza-Yates

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

Customer behavioral data significantly impacts e-commerce search systems. However, in the case of less common queries, the associated behavioral data tends to be sparse and noisy, offering inadequate support to the search mechanism. To…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Ziqi Zhang , Yupin Huang , Quan Deng , Jinghui Xiao , Vivek Mittal , Jingyuan Deng

Large scale analytics engines have become a core dependency for modern data-driven enterprises to derive business insights and drive actions. These engines support a large number of analytic jobs processing huge volumes of data on a daily…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Brandon Haynes , Rana Alotaibi , Anna Pavlenko , Jyoti Leeka , Alekh Jindal , Yuanyuan Tian

E-commerce queries are often short and ambiguous. Consequently, query understanding often uses query rewriting to disambiguate user-input queries. While using e-commerce search tools, users tend to enter multiple searches, which we call…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Simiao Zuo , Qingyu Yin , Haoming Jiang , Shaohui Xi , Bing Yin , Chao Zhang , Tuo Zhao

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

Search is a prominent channel for discovering products on an e-commerce platform. Ranking products retrieved from search becomes crucial to address customer's need and optimize for business metrics. While learning to Rank (LETOR) models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Siddhartha Devapujula , Sagar Arora , Sumit Borar

Two-sided marketplaces such as eBay, Etsy and Taobao have two distinct groups of customers: buyers who use the platform to seek the most relevant and interesting item to purchase and sellers who view the same platform as a tool to reach out…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Andrew Stanton , Akhila Ananthram , Congzhe Su , Liangjie Hong

Semantic relevance calculation is crucial for e-commerce search engines, as it ensures that the items selected closely align with customer intent. Inadequate attention to this aspect can detrimentally affect user experience and engagement.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Ben Chen , Huangyu Dai , Xiang Ma , Wen Jiang , Wei Ning

Effective query reformulation is pivotal in narrowing the gap between a user's exploratory search behavior and the identification of relevant products in e-commerce environments. While traditional approaches predominantly model query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jayanth Yetukuri , Mehran Elyasi , Samarth Agrawal , Aritra Mandal , Rui Kong , Harish Vempati , Ishita Khan

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

Multilingual e-commerce search suffers from severe data imbalance across languages, label noise, and limited supervision for low-resource languages--challenges that impede the cross-lingual generalization of relevance models despite the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Yabo Yin , Yang Xi , Jialong Wang , Shanqi Wang , Jiateng Hu

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