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The quality of non-default ranking on e-commerce platforms, such as based on ascending item price or descending historical sales volume, often suffers from acute relevance problems, since the irrelevant items are much easier to be exposed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Yunjiang Jiang , Yue Shang , Hongwei Shen , Wen-Yun Yang , Yun Xiao

Business success in e-commerce depends on customer perceived value. A customer with high perceived value buys, returns, and recommends items. The perceived value is at risk whenever the information load harms users' shopping experience. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Franziska Scherpinski , Stefan Lessmann

This paper presents a novel approach for using clickthrough data to learn ranked retrieval functions for web search results. We observe that users searching the web often perform a sequence, or chain, of queries with a similar information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Filip Radlinski , Thorsten Joachims

Natural Language (NL) recommender systems aim to retrieve relevant items from free-form user queries and item descriptions. Existing systems often rely on dense retrieval (DR), which struggles to interpret challenging queries that express…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Qianfeng Wen , Yifan Liu , Justin Cui , Joshua Zhang , Anton Korikov , George-Kirollos Saad , Scott Sanner

User-generated reviews serve as crucial references in shopper's decision-making process. Moreover, they improve product sales and validate the reputation of the website as a whole. Thus, it becomes important to design reviews ranking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Akhil Sai Peddireddy

Traditional approaches to ranking in web search follow the paradigm of rank-by-score: a learned function gives each query-URL combination an absolute score and URLs are ranked according to this score. This paradigm ensures that if the score…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Or Sheffet , Nina Mishra , Samuel Ieong

Improved search quality enhances users' satisfaction, which directly impacts sales growth of an E-Commerce (E-Com) platform. Traditional Learning to Rank (LTR) algorithms require relevance judgments on products. In E-Com, getting such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Muhammad Umer Anwaar , Dmytro Rybalko , Martin Kleinsteuber

A success factor for modern companies in the age of Digital Marketing is to understand how customers think and behave based on their online shopping patterns. While the conventional method of gathering consumer insights through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Sohini Roychowdhury , Wenxi Li , Ebrahim Alareqi , Akhilesh Pandita , Ao Liu , Joakim Soderberg

E-commerce search optimization has evolved to include a wider range of metrics that reflect user engagement and business objectives. Modern search frameworks now incorporate advanced quality features, such as sales counts and document-query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jungbae Park , Heonseok Jang

In e-commerce, head queries account for the vast majority of gross merchandise sales and improvements to head queries are highly impactful to the business. While most supervised approaches to search perform better in head queries vs. tail…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Jon Eskreis-Winkler , Yubin Kim , Andrew Stanton

Recommendation plays a key role in e-commerce, enhancing user experience and boosting commercial success. Existing works mainly focus on recommending a set of items, but online e-commerce platforms have recently begun to pay attention to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Qihao Wang , Pritom Saha Akash , Varvara Kollia , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang , Biwei Jiang , Vadim Von Brzeski

Product search is one of the most popular methods for people to discover and purchase products on e-commerce websites. Because personal preferences often have an important influence on the purchase decision of each customer, it is intuitive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Qingyao Ai , Daniel N. Hill , S. V. N. Vishwanathan , W. Bruce Croft

E-commerce platforms are increasingly reliant on recommendation systems to enhance user experience, retain customers, and, in most cases, drive sales. The integration of machine learning methods into these systems has significantly improved…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda , Magdalena Pakula , Bozena Borowska

Nowadays e-commerce search has become an integral part of many people's shopping routines. One critical challenge in today's e-commerce search is the semantic matching problem where the relevant items may not contain the exact terms in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Yiming Qiu , Kang Zhang , Han Zhang , Songlin Wang , Sulong Xu , Yun Xiao , Bo Long , Wen-Yun Yang

In e-commerce, web mining for page recommendations is widely used but often fails to meet user needs. To address this, we propose a novel solution combining semantic web mining with BP neural networks. We process user search logs to extract…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-13 M. Badouch , M. Boutaounte

Recommender systems are embracing conversational technologies to obtain user preferences dynamically, and to overcome inherent limitations of their static models. A successful Conversational Recommender System (CRS) requires proper handling…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Wenqiang Lei , Xiangnan He , Yisong Miao , Qingyun Wu , Richang Hong , Min-Yen Kan , Tat-Seng Chua

User consumption behavior data, which records individuals' online spending history at various types of stores, has been widely used in various applications, such as store recommendation, site selection, and sale forecasting. However, its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Tao Feng , Yunke Zhang , Huandong Wang , Yong Li

Query categorization at customer-to-customer e-commerce platforms like Facebook Marketplace is challenging due to the vagueness of search intent, noise in real-world data, and imbalanced training data across languages. Its deployment also…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Yunzhong He , Cong Zhang , Ruoyan Kong , Chaitanya Kulkarni , Qing Liu , Ashish Gandhe , Amit Nithianandan , Arul Prakash

The majority of existing recommender systems rely on user ratings, which are limited by the lack of user collaboration and the sparsity problem. To address these issues, this study proposes a behavior-based recommender system that leverages…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Reza Barzegar Nozari , Mahdi Divsalar , Sepehr Akbarzadeh Abkenar , Mohammadreza Fadavi Amiri , Ali Divsalar

In this paper, we investigate the task of aggregating search results from heterogeneous sources in an E-commerce environment. First, unlike traditional aggregated web search that merely presents multi-sourced results in the first page, this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Ryuichi Takanobu , Tao Zhuang , Minlie Huang , Jun Feng , Haihong Tang , Bo Zheng