A Unified Generative Approach to Product Attribute-Value Identification

Keiji Shinzato, Naoki Yoshinaga, Yandi Xia, Wei-Te Chen


Abstract
Product attribute-value identification (PAVI) has been studied to link products on e-commerce sites with their attribute values (e.g., ⟨Material, Cotton⟩) using product text as clues. Technical demands from real-world e-commerce platforms require PAVI methods to handle unseen values, multi-attribute values, and canonicalized values, which are only partly addressed in existing extraction- and classification-based approaches. Motivated by this, we explore a generative approach to the PAVI task. We finetune a pre-trained generative model, T5, to decode a set of attribute-value pairs as a target sequence from the given product text. Since the attribute value pairs are unordered set elements, how to linearize them will matter; we, thus, explore methods of composing an attribute-value pair and ordering the pairs for the task. Experimental results confirm that our generation-based approach outperforms the existing extraction and classification-based methods on large-scale real-world datasets meant for those methods.
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2023.findings-acl.413
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
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July
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2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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6599–6612
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.413
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10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.413
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Keiji Shinzato, Naoki Yoshinaga, Yandi Xia, and Wei-Te Chen. 2023. A Unified Generative Approach to Product Attribute-Value Identification. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, pages 6599–6612, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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