W16: E-Commerce and NLP (ECNLP)

Shervin Malmasi, Eugene Agichtein, Surya Kallumadi, Oleg Rokhlenko, Nicola Ueffing, Ido Guy

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Live Session: Jul 10 (12:30-21:15 GMT)
The Third Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP focuses on NLP for e-Commerce and online shopping applications. Shared tasks on classification and Question Answering are included.

Time (PDT) Event Speakers
10 Jul, 5:30 AM-5:40 AM Opening ECNLP - East Ido Guy
10 Jul, 5:40 AM-6:00 AM Paper 2- Bootstrapping Named Entity Recognition in E-Commerce with Positive Unlabeled Learning Hanchu Zhang
10 Jul, 6:00 AM-6:20 AM Paper 5 - Semi-supervised Category-specific Review Tagging on Indonesian E-Commerce Product Reviews Meng Sun
10 Jul, 6:20 AM-6:40 AM Paper 9 - Using Large Pretrained Language Models for Answering User Queries from Product Specifications Kalyani Roy
10 Jul, 6:40 AM-7:00 AM Paper 12 - On Application of Bayesian Parametric and Non-parametric Methods for User Cohorting in Product Search Shashank Gupta
10 Jul, 7:00 AM-7:20 AM Paper 15 - Semi-Supervised Iterative Approach for Domain-Specific Complaint Detection in Social Media Akash Kumar Gautam
10 Jul, 7:20 AM-7:40 AM Paper 17 - Item-based Collaborative Filtering with BERT Yuyangzi Fu, Tian Wang
10 Jul, 7:40 AM-8:00 AM Paper 13 - Deep Hierarchical Classification for Category Prediction in E-commerce System Dehong Gao
10 Jul, 8:00 AM-8:20 AM Paper WWW 1 - Effective Identification of Distinctive Wordmarks Sujatha Das Gollapalli
, 8:20 AM-9:00 AM Coffee Break
10 Jul, 9:00 AM-9:10 AM Open ECNLP chairs
10 Jul, 9:10 AM-9:30 AM Paper 3 - Deep Learning-based Online Alternative Product Recommendations at Scale Mingming Guo
10 Jul, 9:30 AM-9:50 AM Paper 6 - How to Grow a (Product) Tree: Personalized Category Suggestions for eCommerce Type-Ahead Bingqing Yu
10 Jul, 9:50 AM-10:40 AM Keynote 1 Julian McAuley
, Coffee Break
10 Jul, 11:00 AM-11:30 AM Keynote 2 Heng Ji
10 Jul, 11:30 AM-11:50 AM Paper WWW 2 - Study on Price Consistency regarding Pack Size via Product Variant Retrieval and Pack Size Extraction Yang Liu
10 Jul, 11:50 AM-12:10 PM Paper 8 - A Deep Learning System for Sentiment Analysis of Service Calls Yanan Jia
10 Jul, 12:10 PM-12:30 PM Paper 16 - Improving Intent Classification in an E-commerce Voice Assistant by Using Inter-Utterance Context Arpit Sharma
, Lunch
10 Jul, 13:30 PM-13:50 PM Paper 18 - Simster{Q}: {A} Similarity based Clustering Approach to Opinion Question Answering Aishwarya Ashok
10 Jul, 13:50 PM-14:10 PM Paper 21- e-Commerce and Sentiment Analysis: Predicting Outcomes of Class Action Lawsuits Stacey Taylor
10 Jul, 14:10 PM-14:15 PM Closing ECNLP chairs
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Pre-recorded Talks


Bootstrapping Named Entity Recognition in E-Commerce with Positive Unlabeled Learning

Hanchu Zhang, Leonhard Hennig, Christoph Alt, Changjian Hu, Yao Meng and Chao Wang


Deep Learning-based Online Alternative Product Recommendations at Scale

Mingming Guo, Nian Yan, Xiquan Cui, San He Wu, Unaiza Ahsan, Rebecca West and Khalifeh Al Jadda


Semi-supervised Category-specific Review Tagging on Indonesian E-Commerce Product Reviews

Meng Sun, Marie Stephen Leo, Eram Munawwar, Paul C. Condylis, Sheng-yi Kong, Seong Per Lee, Albert Hidayat and Muhamad Danang Kerianto


How to Grow a (Product) Tree: Personalized Category Suggestions for eCommerce Type-Ahead

Jacopo Tagliabue, Bingqing Yu and Marie Beaulieu


A Deep Learning System for Sentiment Analysis of Service Calls

Yanan Jia


Using Large Pretrained Language Models for Answering User Queries from Product Specifications

Kalyani Roy, Smit Shah, Nithish Pai, Jaidam Ramtej, Prajit Nadkarni, Jyotirmoy Banerjee, Pawan Goyal and Surender Kumar


On Application of Bayesian Parametric and Non-parametric Methods for User Cohorting in Product Search

Shashank Gupta


Deep Hierarchical Classification for Category Prediction in E-commerce System

Dehong Gao


Semi-Supervised Iterative Approach for Domain-Specific Complaint Detection in Social Media

Akash Gautam, Debanjan Mahata, Rakesh Gosangi and Rajiv Ratn Shah


Improving Intent Classification in an E-commerce Voice Assistant by Using Inter-Utterance Context

Arpit Sharma


Item-based Collaborative Filtering with BERT

Tian Wang and Yuyangzi Fu


Simster{Q}: {A} Similarity based Clustering Approach to Opinion Question Answering

Aishwarya Ashok, Ganapathy Natarajan, Ramez Elmasri and Laurel Smith-Stvan


e-Commerce and Sentiment Analysis: Predicting Outcomes of Class Action Lawsuits

Stacey Taylor and Vlado Keselj