SIGIR Workshop on eCommerce will take place on Friday August 11, 2017. It is a full day workshop with the following schedule:
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- 9.00 a.m. - 9.05 a.m. : Opening remarks and introduction
- 9.05 a.m. - 9.50 a.m. : Keynote 1 - Mohit Kumar, Flipkart
Abstract: In this talk, we focus on the challenges for search in the Indian e-commerce context. We highlight key patterns around a) diversity of the user base with particular shift towards tier-2/3 cities b) diversity/long tail of products particularly in lifestyle (like non branded women's wear, electronic accessories) c) shift of traffic from desktop to mobile d) less reliable/low internet connectivity. We present challenges that arise or get magnified due to these patterns throughout the entire life cycle of query processing in e-commerce ranging from AutoSuggest/Query Solicitation to Ranking as well as overall search experience through the interface design.
Bio: Mohit is a Principal Data Scientist with Flipkart. He currently works on e-commerce query understanding and ranking in the Search group at Flipkart. Prior to joining Flipkart, he has worked with Accenture Technology Labs, Chicago for 5 and half years in the Analytics research group and with IBM India Research Lab, Delhi for 2 years. He has done his MS + PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.
- 9.50 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. : Paper Session 1 (15 mins presentation + 5 mins discussion each)
Predicting Sales from the Language of Product Descriptions Reid Pryzant, Young-Joo Chung and Dan Jurafsky
- 10.30 a.m. - 10.50 a.m. : Break
- 10.50 a.m. - 11.50 a.m. : Breakout Session
- 11.50 a.m. - 12.20 p.m. : Report on Breakout Session
LUNCH |
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- 1.25 p.m. - 1.55 p.m. : Poster Session
AFTERNOON SESSION |
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- 2.00 p.m. - 2.45 p.m. : Keynote 2 - Xuemei Gu, Alibaba
Bio: Xuemei Gu is currently the head of Alimama (Alibaba Group's ads business unit), which contribute over 50% of Alibaba Group's total revenue. Before that she was the head of Search BU for two years, focusing on search and recommendation technology and products. Xuemei worked for Google Inc for 10 years in Search Infrastructure and Knowledge Graph, and served as Google Beijing site lead for 3 years. She graduated from school of computer science of Carnegie Mellon University with master degree.
- 2.45 p.m. - 3.30 p.m. : Paper Session 2 (15 mins presentation + 5 mins discussion each)
Jon Degenhardt and Nick Whyte
A content-based recommender system for e-commerce offers and coupons Yandi Xia, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Shikhar Vaibhav and Ankur Datta
- 3.30 p.m. - 3.50 p.m. : Break
- 3.50 p.m. - 4.35 p.m. : Panel Discussion - "eCommerce doesn’t need academia"
Jimmy Lin, University of Waterloo
Ian Soboroff, NIST
Parikshit Sondhi, Walmart Labs, USA
Chengxiang Zhai, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
- 4.35 p.m. - 5.20 pm. : Group discussion and Closing
LOCATION |
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Keio Plaza Hotel, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan