Product reviews are a popular and important feature in e-commerce websites, which many customers rely on in their shopping journeys. The reviews often contain personal experiences...
Content owners make a lot of effort to eliminate bad content that may adversely affect their customers. Bad content can take many forms, such as fake...
Today at the annual meeting of the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Ruhi Sarikaya, the director of applied science for Alexa AI, delivered...
In an ideal world, finding a particular section of a video would be as simple as describing it in natural language — saying, for instance, “the...
The annual meeting of the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) begins next week, and Barbara Poblete, an Amazon Visiting Academic and associate professor...
In the early days of purchase data analysis, a study determined that people often bought diapers and beer together. When Theodore Vasiloudis, then a computer science...
Amazon product pages include sections in which customers can both ask and answer questions, and like most community-access online forums, they’ve become fertile ground for comedy....
SIGIR, the conference of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Interest Group on Information Retrieval, begins next week. Alessandro Moschitti, a principal scientist in the Alexa AI...
Why do you want that? (And whos it for?) Predicting customers contexts of use could improve online product discovery. Search and information retrieval Adrian Boteanu March...
What’s the organizational model within Alexa Shopping? Broadly speaking, the Alexa Shopping science organization includes two types of roles: applied scientists and research scientists. Our organization...