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Traditional recommender systems (RS) have been primarily optimized for accuracy and short-term engagement, often overlooking transparency and trustworthiness. Recently, platforms such as Amazon and Instagram have begun providing…

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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

Recommendation systems are an important units in today's e-commerce applications, such as targeted advertising, personalized marketing and information retrieval. In recent years, the importance of contextual information has motivated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Tal Hadad

E-commerce platforms typically store and structure product information and search data in a hierarchy. Efficiently categorizing user search queries into a similar hierarchical structure is paramount in enhancing user experience on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Bing He , Sreyashi Nag , Limeng Cui , Suhang Wang , Zheng Li , Rahul Goutam , Zhen Li , Haiyang Zhang

Internet based businesses and products (e.g. e-commerce, music streaming) are becoming more and more sophisticated every day with a lot of focus on improving customer satisfaction. A core way they achieve this is by providing customers with…

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

E-commerce recommender systems are becoming increasingly important in the current digital world. They are used to personalize user experience, help customers find what they need quickly and efficiently, and increase revenue for the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Tanmayee Salunke , Unnati Nichite

Recommender systems have become integral to our digital experiences, from online shopping to streaming platforms. Still, the rationale behind their suggestions often remains opaque to users. While some systems employ a graph-based approach,…

Thanks to information extraction and semantic Web efforts, search on unstructured text is increasingly refined using semantic annotations and structured knowledge bases. However, most users cannot become familiar with the schema of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-12-27 Uma Sawant , Soumen Chakrabarti

E commerce refers to the utilization of electronic data transmission for enhancing business processes and implementing business strategies. Explicit components of e commerce include providing after sales services, promoting services or…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Ahmad Tasnim Siddiqui , Mohd. Muntjir

Recommendation systems can provide accurate recommendations by analyzing user shopping history. A richer user history results in more accurate recommendations. However, in real applications, users prefer e-commerce platforms where the item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Irem Islek , Sule Gunduz Oguducu

Modern search engines are built on a stack of different components, including query understanding, retrieval, multi-stage ranking, and question answering, among others. These components are often optimized and deployed independently. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Liang Wang , Nan Yang , Xiaolong Huang , Linjun Yang , Rangan Majumder , Furu Wei

Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong potential in recommendation tasks due to their strengths in language understanding, reasoning and knowledge integration. These capabilities are especially beneficial for review-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Kaiwen Wei , Jinpeng Gao , Jiang Zhong , Yuming Yang , Fengmao Lv , Zhenyang Li

In e-commerce, ranking the search results based on users' preference is the most important task. Commercial e-commerce platforms, such as, Amazon, Alibaba, eBay, Walmart, etc. perform extensive and relentless research to perfect their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Md. Ahsanul Kabir , Mohammad Al Hasan , Aritra Mandal , Daniel Tunkelang , Zhe Wu

With the considerable development of customer-to-customer (C2C) e-commerce in the recent years, there is a big demand for an effective recommendation system that suggests suitable websites for users to sell their items with some specified…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Khanh Dang , Khuong Vo , Josef Küng

With the continuous development of machine learning technology, major e-commerce platforms have launched recommendation systems based on it to serve a large number of customers with different needs more efficiently. Compared with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Yang Yu , Zhenhao Gu , Rong Tao , Jingtian Ge , Kenglun Chang

Large-scale e-commerce search must surface a broad set of items from a vast catalog, ranging from bestselling products to new, trending, or seasonal items. Modern systems therefore rely on multiple specialized retrieval channels to surface…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Aditya Gaydhani , Guangyue Xu , Dhanush Kamath , Ankit Singh , Alex Li

Query answering over probabilistic data is an important task but is generally intractable. However, a new approach for this problem has recently been proposed, based on structural decompositions of input databases, following, e.g., tree…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Antoine Amarilli , Silviu Maniu , Mikaël Monet

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

Many of today's online services provide personalized recommendations to their users. Such recommendations are typically designed to serve certain user needs, e.g., to quickly find relevant content in situations of information overload.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Alvise De Biasio , Nicolò Navarin , Dietmar Jannach