EDBT 2026 Demo / reviewers in the wild / expert
Diego Sierra
dblp:237/8314
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0000-2109-8869ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, 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 · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Information retrieval › e-commerce search
query-product matching |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Beyond Semantic Similarity: Explicit Intent Modeling for Query-Product Matching · SIGIR 2026 |
Information retrieval
query understanding |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Beyond Semantic Similarity: Explicit Intent Modeling for Query-Product Matching · SIGIR 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
two-tower retrieval · 1.0dense retrieval · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Beyond Semantic Similarity: Explicit Intent Modeling for Query-Product MatchingabstractBuyer intent in e-commerce is multi-faceted and is expressed through explicit attributes—such as brand, size, color, and material, rather than through general topical relevance. However, many state-of-the-art scalable query-product matching systems rely on aggregate representations, scoring a single query embedding against a single item embedding. While efficient, this aggregation frequently fails to satisfy individual attribute intent: items can be semantically related, yet violate key aspects specified in the query. In contrast, fine-grained interaction methods can better capture aspect-level constraints, but are typically too expensive due to increased run-time computation and storage costs. We propose an aspect-aware ranking framework that retrieves and resolves aspects in queries and performs fine-grained semantic affinity match against aspects in products to compute an aggregate query-product level aspect affinity score. The proposed approach integrates (i) query aspect resolution (canonicalization) using structured aspect data, (ii) a model to learn granular aspect affinity signal capturing individual aspect-level understanding; and iii) an efficient design for online serving, significantly cutting cost associated with inference speed and storage. This design preserves the scalability of two-tower retrieval while substantially improving explicit intent satisfaction. Amanuel Alambo, Sathappan Muthiah, Diego Sierra, Zhenzhong Zhang, Atiq Islam, Alex Cozzi |
SIGIR | 3 |