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Traditional e-commerce search systems often struggle with the semantic gap between user queries and product catalogs. In this paper, we propose a Category-Aligned Retrieval System (CARS) that improves search relevance by first predicting…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Rauf Aliev

Semantic retrieval (also known as dense retrieval) based on textual data has been extensively studied for both web search and product search application fields, where the relevance of a query and a potential target document is computed by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Dong Liu , Esther Lopez Ramos

"High Quality Related Search Query Suggestions" task aims at recommending search queries which are real, accurate, diverse, relevant and engaging. Obtaining large amounts of query-quality human annotations is expensive. Prior work on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Praveen Kumar Bodigutla

Sponsored search in e-commerce poses several unique and complex challenges. These challenges stem from factors such as the asymmetric language structure between search queries and product names, the inherent ambiguity in user search intent,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Zhaodong Wang , Weizhi Du , Md Omar Faruk Rokon , Pooshpendu Adhikary , Yanbing Xue , Jiaxuan Xu , Jianghong Zhou , Kuang-chih Lee , Musen Wen

Many geoportals such as ArcGIS Online are established with the goal of improving geospatial data reusability and achieving intelligent knowledge discovery. However, according to previous research, most of the existing geoportals adopt…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Gengchen Mai , Krzysztof Janowicz , Sathya Prasad , Meilin Shi , Ling Cai , Rui Zhu , Blake Regalia , Ni Lao

Suggesting similar questions for a user query has many applications ranging from reducing search time of users on e-commerce websites, training of employees in companies to holistic learning for students. The use of Natural Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Shriniwas Nayak , Anuj Kanetkar , Hrushabh Hirudkar , Archana Ghotkar , Sheetal Sonawane , Onkar Litake

Mapping a search query to a set of relevant categories in the product taxonomy is a significant challenge in e-commerce search for two reasons: 1) Training data exhibits severe class imbalance problem due to biased click behavior, and 2)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Ali Ahmadvand , Surya Kallumadi , Faizan Javed , Eugene Agichtein

Interactive query expansion can assist users during their query formulation process. We conducted a user study with over 4,000 unique visitors and four different design approaches for a search term suggestion service. As a basis for our…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Daniel Hienert , Philipp Schaer , Johann Schaible , Philipp Mayr

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

Efficient semantic access to industrial product data is a key enabler for factory automation and emerging LLM-based agent workflows, where both human engineers and autonomous agents must identify suitable components from highly structured…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Nico Baumgart , Markus Lange-Hegermann , Jan Henze

In search advertising, keyword matching connects user queries with relevant ads. While token-based matching increases ad coverage, it can reduce relevance due to overly permissive semantic expansion. This work extends keyword reach through…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Dipanwita Saha , Anis Zaman , Hua Zou , Ning Chen , Xinxin Shu , Nadia Vase , Abraham Bagherjeiran

We propose a method to protect the privacy of search engine users by decomposing the queries using semantically \emph{related} and unrelated \emph{distractor} terms. Instead of a single query, the search engine receives multiple decomposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Danushka Bollegala , Tomoya Machide , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi

Automatic query reformulation refers to rewriting a user's original query in order to improve the ranking of retrieval results compared to the original query. We present a general framework for automatic query reformulation based on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Fernando Diaz

In this vision paper, we propose a shift in perspective for improving the effectiveness of similarity search. Rather than focusing solely on enhancing the data quality, particularly machine learning-generated embeddings, we advocate for a…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Renzhi Wu , Jingfan Meng , Jie Jeff Xu , Huayi Wang , Kexin Rong

On most sponsored search platforms, advertisers bid on some keywords for their advertisements (ads). Given a search request, ad retrieval module rewrites the query into bidding keywords, and uses these keywords as keys to select Top N ads…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Su Yan , Wei Lin , Tianshu Wu , Daorui Xiao , Xu Zheng , Bo Wu , Kaipeng Liu

This paper proposes a novel method to improve the accuracy of product search in e-commerce by utilizing a cluster language model. The method aims to address the limitations of the bi-encoder architecture while maintaining a minimal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Duleep Rathgamage Don , Ying Xie , Le Yu , Simon Hughes , Yun Zhu

We study a novel problem of sponsored search (SS) for E-Commerce platforms: how we can attract query users to click product advertisements (ads) by presenting them features of products that attract them. This not only benefits merchants and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Wei Zhao , Boxuan Zhang , Beidou Wang , Ziyu Guan , Wanxian Guan , Guang Qiu , Wei Ning , Jiming Chen , Hongmin Liu

Semantic retrieval, which retrieves semantically matched items given a textual query, has been an essential component to enhance system effectiveness in e-commerce search. In this paper, we study the multimodal retrieval problem, where the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Zhigong Zhou , Ning Ding , Xiaochuan Fan , Yue Shang , Yiming Qiu , Jingwei Zhuo , Zhiwei Ge , Songlin Wang , Lin Liu , Sulong Xu , Han Zhang

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

Product search plays an essential role in eCommerce. It was treated as a special type of information retrieval problem. Most existing works make use of historical data to improve the search performance, which do not take the opportunity to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Zixuan Li , Lizi Liao , Tat-Seng Chua