Combining semantic search and twin product classification for recognition of purchasable items in voice shopping

Dieu-Thu Le, Verena Weber, Melanie Bradford


Abstract
The accuracy of an online shopping system via voice commands is particularly important and may have a great impact on customer trust. This paper focuses on the problem of detecting if an utterance contains actual and purchasable products, thus referring to a shopping-related intent in a typical Spoken Language Understanding architecture consist- ing of an intent classifier and a slot detec- tor. Searching through billions of products to check if a detected slot is a purchasable item is prohibitively expensive. To overcome this problem, we present a framework that (1) uses a retrieval module that returns the most rele- vant products with respect to the detected slot, and (2) combines it with a twin network that decides if the detected slot is indeed a pur- chasable item or not. Through various exper- iments, we show that this architecture outper- forms a typical slot detector approach, with a gain of +81% in accuracy and +41% in F1 score.
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2021.ecnlp-1.18
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Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP
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August
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2021
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Online
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Shervin Malmasi, Surya Kallumadi, Nicola Ueffing, Oleg Rokhlenko, Eugene Agichtein, Ido Guy
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ECNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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150–157
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.ecnlp-1.18
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.ecnlp-1.18
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Dieu-Thu Le, Verena Weber, and Melanie Bradford. 2021. Combining semantic search and twin product classification for recognition of purchasable items in voice shopping. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP, pages 150–157, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Combining semantic search and twin product classification for recognition of purchasable items in voice shopping (Le et al., ECNLP 2021)
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