ConCaT: Construction of category trees from search queries in e-commerce

Uri Avron, Shay Gershtein, Ido Guy, Tova Milo, Slava Novgorodov

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Abstract

Category trees play a central role in e-commerce platforms, enabling browsing-style information access. Building category trees that reflect users' dynamic information needs is a challenging task, mostly carried out by in-house taxonomists. This manual construction often leads to trees that are lacking or outdated since it is hard to keep track of market trends, seasonal changes, holidays, and special events.To support a browsing experience that better matches the user information needs, and to considerably reduce the manual work performed by taxonomists, we propose CONCAT - a system that leverages the demand-based nature of the query paradigm to automatically build a category tree that is maximally similar to the result sets for search queries. We demonstrate the effectiveness of CONCAT on real-world data, taken from a large e-commerce platform, by interacting with the ICDE'21 participants who act both as the consumers and the taxonomists.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2021 IEEE 37th International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages2701-2704
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781728191843
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Apr 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event37th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2021 - Virtual, Chania, Greece
Duration: 19 Apr 202122 Apr 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering
Volume2021-April
ISSN (Print)1084-4627

Conference

Conference37th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2021
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityVirtual, Chania
Period19/04/2122/04/21

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Information Systems

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