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title = "{G}raph{R}educe: Coverage-Preserving {LLM} Aggregation for {E}-commerce Review Insights",
author = "Jiang, Hao and
Li, Xin and
Zhang, Yichi and
Lin, Weisi",
editor = "Atanasova, Pepa and
Haffari, Gholamreza and
Wang, Minghan",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track",
month = oct,
year = "2026",
address = "Budapest, Hungary",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-industry.91/",
pages = "1545--1557",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-460-6",
abstract = "In e-commerce, product detail pages (PDPs) often contain hundreds or thousands of customer reviews, yet the interface can surface only a small set of concise and reliable insights. A useful review aggregation system must therefore abstract recurring themes while preserving which reviews support each insight. We study this problem as structured review-insight mining: review-level tuples are first extracted and then aggregated into ranked product-level insight clusters with explicit member traceability. We propose GraphReduce, a coverage-preserving framework for product-scale review insight aggregation. It combines a contrastively trained projection layer over frozen sentence embeddings, graph-based clustering on local neighborhood structure, and an LLM reducer/ranker for naming and ordering canonical clusters. By keeping membership accounting outside the generative step, GraphReduce preserves complete tuple coverage and avoids a common failure mode of direct LLM summarization: producing plausible high-level themes while silently dropping long-tail evidence. Across three product-category benchmarks, GraphReduce improves recovery of gold insight clusters over strong lossless embedding-based baselines while maintaining comparable ranking quality. We further show that flat LLM and topic-modeling baselines can appear competitive under ranking metrics despite omitting substantial input evidence, and that an anti-copy reinforcement objective improves the quality of upstream tuple extraction. These results highlight the importance of coverage-aware aggregation for faithful review insight mining in e-commerce settings."
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%T GraphReduce: Coverage-Preserving LLM Aggregation for E-commerce Review Insights
%A Jiang, Hao
%A Li, Xin
%A Zhang, Yichi
%A Lin, Weisi
%Y Atanasova, Pepa
%Y Haffari, Gholamreza
%Y Wang, Minghan
%S Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track
%D 2026
%8 October
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Budapest, Hungary
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%X In e-commerce, product detail pages (PDPs) often contain hundreds or thousands of customer reviews, yet the interface can surface only a small set of concise and reliable insights. A useful review aggregation system must therefore abstract recurring themes while preserving which reviews support each insight. We study this problem as structured review-insight mining: review-level tuples are first extracted and then aggregated into ranked product-level insight clusters with explicit member traceability. We propose GraphReduce, a coverage-preserving framework for product-scale review insight aggregation. It combines a contrastively trained projection layer over frozen sentence embeddings, graph-based clustering on local neighborhood structure, and an LLM reducer/ranker for naming and ordering canonical clusters. By keeping membership accounting outside the generative step, GraphReduce preserves complete tuple coverage and avoids a common failure mode of direct LLM summarization: producing plausible high-level themes while silently dropping long-tail evidence. Across three product-category benchmarks, GraphReduce improves recovery of gold insight clusters over strong lossless embedding-based baselines while maintaining comparable ranking quality. We further show that flat LLM and topic-modeling baselines can appear competitive under ranking metrics despite omitting substantial input evidence, and that an anti-copy reinforcement objective improves the quality of upstream tuple extraction. These results highlight the importance of coverage-aware aggregation for faithful review insight mining in e-commerce settings.
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%P 1545-1557
Markdown (Informal)
[GraphReduce: Coverage-Preserving LLM Aggregation for E-commerce Review Insights](https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-industry.91/) (Jiang et al., EMNLP 2026)
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