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arXiv:2008.08180 (cs)
[Submitted on 18 Aug 2020]

Title:Semantic Product Search for Matching Structured Product Catalogs in E-Commerce

Authors:Jason Ingyu Choi, Surya Kallumadi, Bhaskar Mitra, Eugene Agichtein, Faizan Javed
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Abstract:Retrieving all semantically relevant products from the product catalog is an important problem in E-commerce. Compared to web documents, product catalogs are more structured and sparse due to multi-instance fields that encode heterogeneous aspects of products (e.g. brand name and product dimensions). In this paper, we propose a new semantic product search algorithm that learns to represent and aggregate multi-instance fields into a document representation using state of the art transformers as encoders. Our experiments investigate two aspects of the proposed approach: (1) effectiveness of field representations and structured matching; (2) effectiveness of adding lexical features to semantic search. After training our models using user click logs from a well-known E-commerce platform, we show that our results provide useful insights for improving product search. Lastly, we present a detailed error analysis to show which types of queries benefited the most by fielded representations and structured matching.
Comments: 4 pages
Subjects: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
Cite as: arXiv:2008.08180 [cs.IR]
  (or arXiv:2008.08180v1 [cs.IR] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2008.08180

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From: Jason Ingyu Choi [view email]
[v1] Tue, 18 Aug 2020 23:01:16 UTC (372 KB)
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