Extracting Shopping Interest-Related Product Types from the Web (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing e-commerce products are limited in their ability to assist customers in interest-oriented shopping. |
| Approach: | They propose to extract PTs from Web pages containing hand-crafted PT recommendations for SIs . they propose to use tree-transformer encoders for node classification to improve inter-node dependency modeling . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the best baseline model by 2.37 F1 points on a WebPT dataset. |
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