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Recommendation systems are ubiquitous, from Spotify playlist suggestions to Amazon product suggestions. Nevertheless, depending on the methodology or the dataset, these systems typically fail to capture user preferences and generate general…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Angela John , Theophilus Aidoo , Hamayoon Behmanush , Irem B. Gunduz , Hewan Shrestha , Maxx Richard Rahman , Wolfgang Maaß

Understanding the connections between unstructured text and semi-structured table is an important yet neglected problem in natural language processing. In this work, we focus on content-based table retrieval. Given a query, the task is to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Zhao Yan , Duyu Tang , Nan Duan , Junwei Bao , Yuanhua Lv , Ming Zhou , Zhoujun Li

We present a context-aware neural ranking model to exploit users' on-task search activities and enhance retrieval performance. In particular, a two-level hierarchical recurrent neural network is introduced to learn search context…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Wasi Uddin Ahmad , Kai-Wei Chang , Hongning Wang

Recent advances in the development of large language models are rapidly changing how online applications function. LLM-based search tools, for instance, offer a natural language interface that can accommodate complex queries and provide…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Sofia Eleni Spatharioti , David M. Rothschild , Daniel G. Goldstein , Jake M. Hofman

The continuous growth of electronic commerce has stimulated great interest in studying online consumer behavior. Given the significant growth in online shopping, better understanding of customers allows better marketing strategies to be…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2012-12-27 Soroosh Nalchigar , Ingmar Weber

User queries in e-commerce search are often vague, short, and underspecified, making it difficult for retrieval systems to match them accurately against structured product catalogs. This challenge is amplified by the one-to-many nature of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Yipeng Zhang , Bowen Liu , Xiaoshuang Zhang , Aritra Mandal , Canran Xu , Zhe Wu

Recommender systems are effective tools for mitigating information overload and have seen extensive applications across various domains. However, the single focus on utility goals proves to be inadequate in addressing real-world concerns,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yuying Zhao , Yu Wang , Yunchao Liu , Xueqi Cheng , Charu Aggarwal , Tyler Derr

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

This paper analyses role of internet in marketing and its influences on business decision-making process. It explains how the decision maker collect variety of information about customers through internet and analysis this data to better…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Tanzila Saba

Users worldwide access massive amounts of curated data in the form of rankings on a daily basis. The societal impact of this ease of access has been studied and work has been done to propose and enforce various notions of fairness in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Jia Ao Sun , Sikha Pentyala , Martine De Cock , Golnoosh Farnadi

Ranking is the most important component in a search system. Mostsearch systems deal with large amounts of natural language data,hence an effective ranking system requires a deep understandingof text semantics. Recently, deep learning based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Weiwei Guo , Xiaowei Liu , Sida Wang , Huiji Gao , Ananth Sankar , Zimeng Yang , Qi Guo , Liang Zhang , Bo Long , Bee-Chung Chen , Deepak Agarwal

Compliance with the European Union's Platform-to-Business (P2B) Regulation is challenging for online platforms, and assessing their compliance can be difficult for public authorities. This is partly due to the lack of automated tools for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Francesco Sovrano , Michaël Lognoul , Alberto Bacchelli

Tables are common and important in scientific documents, yet most text-based document search systems do not capture structures and semantics specific to tables. How to bridge different types of mismatch between keywords queries and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Kyle Yingkai Gao , Jamie Callan

Item ranking systems support users in multi-criteria decision-making tasks. Users need to trust rankings and ranking algorithms to reflect user preferences nicely while avoiding systematic errors and biases. However, today only few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 I. Al Hazwani , J. Schmid , M. Sachdeva , J. Bernard

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…

A ranking is an ordered sequence of items, in which an item with higher ranking score is more preferred than the items with lower ranking scores. In many information systems, rankings are widely used to represent the preferences over a set…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Zhiwei Lin , Yi Li , Xiaolian Guo

Search queries with superlatives (e.g., best, most popular) require comparing candidates across multiple dimensions, demanding linguistic understanding and domain knowledge. We show that LLMs can uncover latent intent behind these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yilun Zhu , Nikhita Vedula , Shervin Malmasi

As the use of web is increasing more day by day, the web users get easily lost in the web's rich hyper structure. The main aim of the owner of the website is to give the relevant information according their needs to the users. We explained…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-08-10 Laxmi Choudhary , Bhawani Shankar Burdak

The problem of content search through comparisons has recently received considerable attention. In short, a user searching for a target object navigates through a database in the following manner: the user is asked to select the object most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Amin Karbasi , Stratis Ioannidis , Laurent Massoulie

Complex search tasks - such as those from the Search as Learning (SAL) domain - often result in users developing an information need composed of several aspects. However, current models of searcher behaviour assume that individuals have an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Arthur Câmara , David Maxwell , Claudia Hauff