Mengxue Li

Fuyu Lv, Mengxue Li, Tonglei Guo et al.

Deep learning-based sequential recommender systems have recently attracted increasing attention from both academia and industry. Most of industrial Embedding-Based Retrieval (EBR) system for recommendation share the similar ideas with sequential recommenders. Among them, how to comprehensively capture sequential user interest is a fundamental problem. However, most existing sequential recommendation models take as input clicked or purchased behavior sequences from user-item interactions. This leads to incomprehensive user representation and sub-optimal model performance, since they ignore the complete user behavior exposure data, i.e., items impressed yet unclicked by users. In this work, we attempt to incorporate and model those unclicked item sequences using a new learning approach in order to explore better sequential recommendation technique. An efficient triplet metric learning algorithm is proposed to appropriately learn the representation of unclicked items. Our method can be simply integrated with existing sequential recommendation models by a confidence fusion network and further gain better user representation. The offline experimental results based on real-world E-commerce data demonstrate the effectiveness and verify the importance of unclicked items in sequential recommendation. Moreover we deploy our new model (named XDM) into EBR of recommender system at Taobao, outperforming the deployed previous generation SDM.

Haijing Liu, Yang Gao, Pin Lv et al.

We study the helpful product reviews identification problem in this paper. We observe that the evidence-conclusion discourse relations, also known as arguments, often appear in product reviews, and we hypothesise that some argument-based features, e.g. the percentage of argumentative sentences, the evidences-conclusions ratios, are good indicators of helpful reviews. To validate this hypothesis, we manually annotate arguments in 110 hotel reviews, and investigate the effectiveness of several combinations of argument-based features. Experiments suggest that, when being used together with the argument-based features, the state-of-the-art baseline features can enjoy a performance boost (in terms of F1) of 11.01\% in average.

Mengxue Li, Shiqiang Geng, Yang Gao et al.

Argumentation mining aims at automatically extracting the premises-claim discourse structures in natural language texts. There is a great demand for argumentation corpora for customer reviews. However, due to the controversial nature of the argumentation annotation task, there exist very few large-scale argumentation corpora for customer reviews. In this work, we novelly use the crowdsourcing technique to collect argumentation annotations in Chinese hotel reviews. As the first Chinese argumentation dataset, our corpus includes 4814 argument component annotations and 411 argument relation annotations, and its annotations qualities are comparable to some widely used argumentation corpora in other languages.