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Fanglin Chen 0002
dblp:85/7057-2
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
0since 2021 · last 2020
0000-0002-9034-9622ORCID · conflict
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 first-author
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 |
Recommender systems · 50% Information retrieval · 50% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Computational finance and economics · 100% |
Topics — the 1 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Recommender systems › representation learning for recommendation
product representation learning |
0.4 | 1 | 2020 | Studying Product Competition Using Representation Learning · SIGIR 2020 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
word2vec · 0.9random utility choice model · 0.9causal inference · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Studying Product Competition Using Representation LearningabstractStudying competition and market structure at the product level instead of brand level can provide firms with insights on cannibalization and product line optimization. However, it is computationally challenging to analyze product-level competition for the millions of products available on e-commerce platforms. We introduce Product2Vec, a method based on the representation learning algorithm Word2Vec, to study product-level competition, when the number of products is large. The proposed model takes shopping baskets as inputs and, for every product, generates a low-dimensional embedding that preserves important product information. In order for the product embeddings to be useful for firm strategic decision making, we leverage economic theories and causal inference to propose two modifications to Word2Vec. First of all, we create two measures, complementarity and exchangeability, that allow us to determine whether product pairs are complements or substitutes. Second, we combine these vectors with random utility-based choice models to forecast demand. To accurately estimate price elasticities, i.e., how demand responds to changes in price, we modify Word2Vec by removing the influence of price from the product vectors. We show that, compared with state-of-the-art models, our approach is faster, and can produce more accurate demand forecasts and price elasticities. Fanglin Chen 0002, Davide Proserpio, Isamar Troncoso, Feiyu Xiong |
SIGIR | 1 |