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Autori principali: Martinek, Alicja, Łukasik, Szymon, Gandomi, Amir H.
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10091
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author Martinek, Alicja
Łukasik, Szymon
Gandomi, Amir H.
author_facet Martinek, Alicja
Łukasik, Szymon
Gandomi, Amir H.
contents Matching identical products present in multiple product feeds constitutes a crucial element of many tasks of e-commerce, such as comparing product offerings, dynamic price optimization, and selecting the assortment personalized for the client. It corresponds to the well-known machine learning task of entity matching, with its own specificity, like omnipresent unstructured data or inaccurate and inconsistent product descriptions. This paper aims to present a new philosophy to product matching utilizing a semi-supervised clustering approach. We study the properties of this method by experimenting with the IDEC algorithm on the real-world dataset using predominantly textual features and fuzzy string matching, with more standard approaches as a point of reference. Encouraging results show that unsupervised matching, enriched with a small annotated sample of product links, could be a possible alternative to the dominant supervised strategy, requiring extensive manual data labeling.
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spellingShingle Text-Based Product Matching -- Semi-Supervised Clustering Approach
Martinek, Alicja
Łukasik, Szymon
Gandomi, Amir H.
Databases
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Matching identical products present in multiple product feeds constitutes a crucial element of many tasks of e-commerce, such as comparing product offerings, dynamic price optimization, and selecting the assortment personalized for the client. It corresponds to the well-known machine learning task of entity matching, with its own specificity, like omnipresent unstructured data or inaccurate and inconsistent product descriptions. This paper aims to present a new philosophy to product matching utilizing a semi-supervised clustering approach. We study the properties of this method by experimenting with the IDEC algorithm on the real-world dataset using predominantly textual features and fuzzy string matching, with more standard approaches as a point of reference. Encouraging results show that unsupervised matching, enriched with a small annotated sample of product links, could be a possible alternative to the dominant supervised strategy, requiring extensive manual data labeling.
title Text-Based Product Matching -- Semi-Supervised Clustering Approach
topic Databases
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10091