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High Quality Related Search Query Suggestions using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Information Retrieval 2021-08-11 v1 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Abstract

"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 supervised query suggestion models suffered from selection and exposure bias, and relied on sparse and noisy immediate user-feedback (e.g., clicks), leading to low quality suggestions. Reinforcement Learning techniques employed to reformulate a query using terms from search results, have limited scalability to large-scale industry applications. To recommend high quality related search queries, we train a Deep Reinforcement Learning model to predict the query a user would enter next. The reward signal is composed of long-term session-based user feedback, syntactic relatedness and estimated naturalness of generated query. Over the baseline supervised model, our proposed approach achieves a significant relative improvement in terms of recommendation diversity (3%), down-stream user-engagement (4.2%) and per-sentence word repetitions (82%).

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@article{arxiv.2108.04452,
  title  = {High Quality Related Search Query Suggestions using Deep Reinforcement Learning},
  author = {Praveen Kumar Bodigutla},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.04452},
  year   = {2021}
}

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