VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Nicole McNabb
dblp:210/2275
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2023
0009-0006-7951-2720ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Information retrieval · 67% Data mining · 33% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Data mining › text mining › information extraction
named entity recognition |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Entity-aware Multi-task Learning for Query Understanding at Walmart · KDD 2023 |
Information retrieval › query understanding
query classification |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Entity-aware Multi-task Learning for Query Understanding at Walmart · KDD 2023 |
Information retrieval
query understanding |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Entity-aware Multi-task Learning for Query Understanding at Walmart · KDD 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
multi-task learning · 0.7entity retrieval · 0.7PLE · 0.7MMoE · 0.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Entity-aware Multi-task Learning for Query Understanding at WalmartabstractQuery Understanding (QU) is a fundamental process in E-commerce search engines by extracting the shopping intents of customers. It usually includes a set of different tasks such as named entity recognization and query classification. Traditional approaches often tackle each task separately by its own network, which leads to excessive workload for development and maintenance as well as increased latency and resource usage in large-scale E-commerce platforms. To tackle these challenges, this paper presents a multi-task learning approach to query understanding at Walmart. We experimented with several state-of-the-art multi-task learning architectures including MTDNN, MMoE, and PLE. Furthermore, we propose a novel large-scale entity-aware multi-task learning model (EAMT)1 by retrieving entities from engagement data as query context to augment the query representation. To the best of our knowledge, there exists no prior work on multi-task learning for E-commerce query understanding. Comprehensive offline experiments are conducted on industry-scale datasets (up to 965M queries) to illustrate the effectiveness of our approach. The results from online experiments show substantial gains in key accuracy and latency metrics. https://github.com/zhiyuanpeng/KDD2023-EAMT Zhiyuan Peng 0001, Vachik S. Dave, Nicole McNabb, Rahul Sharnagat, Alessandro Magnani, Ciya Liao, Yi Fang 0008, Sravanthi Rajanala |
KDD | 3 |