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In this work we propose a new approach for semantic web matching to improve the performance of Web Service replacement. Because in automatic systems we should ensure the self-healing, self-configuration, self-optimization and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Kamran Zamanifar , Golsa Heidari , Naser Nematbakhsh , Farhad Mardookhi

Query expansion is a well known method to improve the performance of information retrieval systems. In this work we have tested different approaches to extract the candidate query terms from the top ranked documents returned by the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2008-12-18 José R. Pérez-Agüera , Lourdes Araujo

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

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

Warning: This paper contains content that may be offensive or upsetting. Online search engine auto-completions make it faster for users to search and access information. However, they also have the potential to reinforce and promote…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Geng Liu , Pietro Pinoli , Stefano Ceri , Francesco Pierri

Conversational user queries are increasingly challenging traditional e-commerce platforms, whose search systems are typically optimized for keyword-based queries. We present an LLM-based semantic search framework that effectively captures…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Emad Siddiqui , Venkatesh Terikuti , Xuan Lu

We propose a two-stage "Mine and Refine" contrastive training framework for semantic text embeddings to enhance multi-category e-commerce search retrieval. Large scale e-commerce search demands embeddings that generalize to long tail, noisy…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Jiaqi Xi , Raghav Saboo , Luming Chen , Martin Wang , Sudeep Das

Recommender systems often struggle with over-specialization, which severely limits users' exposure to diverse content and creates filter bubbles that reduce serendipitous discovery. To address this fundamental limitation, this paper…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Edoardo Bianchi

In this work, we address the brand entity linking problem for e-commerce search queries. The entity linking task is done by either i)a two-stage process consisting of entity mention detection followed by entity disambiguation or ii) an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Dong Liu , Sreyashi Nag

Accurate explicit and implicit product identification in search queries is critical for enhancing user experiences, especially at a company like Adobe which has over 50 products and covers queries across hundreds of tools. In this work, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Sanat Sharma , Jayant Kumar , Twisha Naik , Zhaoyu Lu , Arvind Srikantan , Tracy Holloway King

Product retrieval is the backbone of e-commerce search: for each user query, it identifies a high-recall candidate set from billions of items, laying the foundation for high-quality ranking and user experience. Despite extensive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Gui Ling , Weiyuan Li , Yue Jiang , Wenjun Peng , Xingxian Liu , Dongshuai Li , Fuyu Lv , Dan Ou , Haihong Tang

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

Large scale eCommerce platforms such as eBay carry a wide variety of inventory and provide several buying choices to online shoppers. It is critical for eCommerce search engines to showcase in the top results the variety and selection of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Shubhangi Tandon , Saratchandra Indrakanti , Amit Jaiswal , Svetlana Strunjas , Manojkumar Rangasamy Kannadasan

We introduce a data-centric approach for mitigating presentation bias in real-time neural query autocomplete systems through the use of synthetic prefixes. These prefixes are generated from complete user queries collected during regular…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Adithya Rajan , Xiaoyu Liu , Prateek Verma , Vibhu Arora

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

In the rapidly evolving field of e-commerce, the effectiveness of search re-ranking models is crucial for enhancing user experience and driving conversion rates. Despite significant advancements in feature representation and model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Enqiang Xu , Xinhui Li , Zhigong Zhou , Jiahao Ji , Jinyuan Zhao , Dadong Miao , Songlin Wang , Lin Liu , Sulong Xu

In this work several semantic approaches to concept-based query expansion and reranking schemes are studied and compared with different ontology-based expansion methods in web document search and retrieval. In particular, we focus on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-01-20 Valentina Franzoni , Yuanxi Li , Clement H. C. Leung , Alfredo Milani

As e-commerce platforms expand their product catalogs, accurately recommending long-tail items becomes increasingly important for enhancing both user experience and platform revenue. A key challenge is the long-tail problem, where extreme…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Qingyi Lu , Haotian Lyu , Jiayun Zheng , Yang Wang , Li Zhang , Chengrui Zhou

Personalized search systems in e-commerce platforms increasingly involve user interactions with AI assistants, where users consult about products, usage scenarios, and more. Leveraging consultation to personalize search services is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Weicong Qin , Yi Xu , Weijie Yu , Teng Shi , Chenglei Shen , Ming He , Jianping Fan , Xiao Zhang , Jun Xu

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…

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