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Relevance judgments are crucial for evaluating information retrieval systems, but traditional human-annotated labels are time-consuming and expensive. As a result, many researchers turn to automatic alternatives to accelerate method…

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This paper addresses the challenge of improving user experience on e-commerce platforms by enhancing product ranking relevant to users' search queries. Ambiguity and complexity of user queries often lead to a mismatch between the user's…

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Product ranking is a crucial component for many e-commerce services. One of the major challenges in product search is the vocabulary mismatch between query and products, which may be a larger vocabulary gap problem compared to other…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Xuyang Wu , Alessandro Magnani , Suthee Chaidaroon , Ajit Puthenputhussery , Ciya Liao , Yi Fang

Dense retrieval, as the core component of e-commerce search engines, maps user queries and items into a unified semantic space through pre-trained embedding models to enable large-scale real-time semantic retrieval. Despite the rapid…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Xingxian Liu , Dongshuai Li , Jiahui Wan , Tao Wen , Gui Ling , Yuliang Yan , Fuyu Lv , Dan Ou , Haihong Tang , Bo Zheng

Search algorithms and user query relevance have given LLMs the ability to return relevant information, but the effect of content phrasing on ad visibility remains underexplored. We investigate how LLM-based rewriting of advertisements can…

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SQL query rewriting aims to reformulate a query into a more efficient form while preserving equivalence. Most existing methods rely on predefined rewrite rules. However, such rule-based approaches face fundamental limitations: (1) fixed…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Dongjie Xu , Yue Cui , Weijie Shi , Qingzhi Ma , Hanghui Guo , Jiaming Li , Yao Zhao , Ruiyuan Zhang , Shimin Di , Jia Zhu , Kai Zheng , Jiajie Xu

Relevance modeling is a critical component for enhancing user experience in search engines, with the primary objective of identifying items that align with users' queries. Traditional models only rely on the semantic congruence between…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Zeyuan Chen , Haiyan Wu , Kaixin Wu , Wei Chen , Mingjie Zhong , Jia Xu , Zhongyi Liu , Wei Zhang

Retrieving keywords (bidwords) with the same intent as query, referred to as close variant keywords, is of prime importance for effective targeted search advertising. For head and torso search queries, sponsored search engines use a huge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Akash Kumar Mohankumar , Nikit Begwani , Amit Singh

Query rewriting is an effective technique for refining poorly written queries before they reach the query optimizer. However, manual rewriting is not scalable, as it is prone to errors and requires deep expertise. Traditional query…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Jie Liu , Barzan Mozafari

The major task of any e-commerce search engine is to retrieve the most relevant inventory items, which best match the user intent reflected in a query. This task is non-trivial due to many reasons, including ambiguous queries, misaligned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Md. Ahsanul Kabir , Mohammad Al Hasan , Aritra Mandal , Liyang Hao , Ishita Khan , Daniel Tunkelang , Zhe Wu

Ranking relevance is a fundamental task in search engines, aiming to identify the items most relevant to a given user query. Traditional relevance models typically produce scalar scores or directly predict relevance labels, limiting both…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ziyang Zeng , Heming Jing , Jindong Chen , Xiangli Li , Hongyu Liu , Yixuan He , Zhengyu Li , Yige Sun , Zheyong Xie , Yuqing Yang , Shaosheng Cao , Jun Fan , Yi Wu , Yao Hu

Generative retrieval introduces a groundbreaking paradigm to document retrieval by directly generating the identifier of a pertinent document in response to a specific query. This paradigm has demonstrated considerable benefits and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Mingming Li , Huimu Wang , Zuxu Chen , Guangtao Nie , Yiming Qiu , Guoyu Tang , Lin Liu , Jingwei Zhuo

Training and refreshing a web-scale Question Answering (QA) system for a multi-lingual commercial search engine often requires a huge amount of training examples. One principled idea is to mine implicit relevance feedback from user behavior…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Linjun Shou , Shining Bo , Feixiang Cheng , Ming Gong , Jian Pei , Daxin Jiang

[Context and Motivation] Online user feedback provides valuable information to support requirements engineering (RE). However, analyzing online user feedback is challenging due to its large volume and noise. Large language models (LLMs)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Manjeshwar Aniruddh Mallya , Alessio Ferrari , Mohammad Amin Zadenoori , Jacek Dąbrowski

In e-commerce, the order in which search results are displayed when a customer tries to find relevant listings can significantly impact their shopping experience and search efficiency. Tailored re-ranking system based on relevance and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Siqi Wang , Audrey Zhijiao Chen , Austin Clapp , Sheng-Min Shih , Xiaoting Zhao

Manual relevance judgements in Information Retrieval are costly and require expertise, driving interest in using Large Language Models (LLMs) for automatic assessment. While LLMs have shown promise in general web search scenarios, their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Ratan J. Sebastian , Anett Hoppe

Achievement. We introduce LORE, a systematic framework for Large Generative Model-based relevance in e-commerce search. Deployed and iterated over three years, LORE achieves a cumulative +27\% improvement in online GoodRate metrics. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Chenji Lu , Zhuo Chen , Hui Zhao , Zhiyuan Zeng , Gang Zhao , Junjie Ren , Ruicong Xu , Haoran Li , Songyan Liu , Pengjie Wang , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng

Effective query-item relevance modeling is pivotal for enhancing user experience and safeguarding user satisfaction in e-commerce search systems. Recently, benefiting from the vast inherent knowledge, Large Language Model (LLM) approach…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Gang Zhao , Ximing Zhang , Chenji Lu , Hui Zhao , Tianshu Wu , Pengjie Wang , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng

This study deeply explores the application of large language model (LLM) in personalized recommendation system of e-commerce. Aiming at the limitations of traditional recommendation algorithms in processing large-scale and multi-dimensional…

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