A Data-Centric Approach to Multilingual E-Commerce Product Search: Case Study on Query-Category and Query-Item Relevance

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21671v1
• Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 17:27:35 GMT
• Title: A Data-Centric Approach to Multilingual E-Commerce Product Search: Case Study on Query-Category and Query-Item Relevance
• Authors: Yabo Yin, Yang Xi, Jialong Wang, Shanqi Wang, Jiateng Hu,
• Abstract summary: multilingual e-commerce search suffers from severe data imbalance across languages.<n>We present a practical, architecture-agnostic, data-centric framework to enhance performance on two core tasks.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Multilingual e-commerce search suffers from severe data imbalance across languages, label noise, and limited supervision for low-resource languages--challenges that impede the cross-lingual generalization of relevance models despite the strong capabilities of large language models (LLMs). In this work, we present a practical, architecture-agnostic, data-centric framework to enhance performance on two core tasks: Query-Category (QC) relevance (matching queries to product categories) and Query-Item (QI) relevance (matching queries to product titles). Rather than altering the model, we redesign the training data through three complementary strategies: (1) translation-based augmentation to synthesize examples for languages absent in training, (2) semantic negative sampling to generate hard negatives and mitigate class imbalance, and (3) self-validation filtering to detect and remove likely mislabeled instances. Evaluated on the CIKM AnalytiCup 2025 dataset, our approach consistently yields substantial F1 score improvements over strong LLM baselines, achieving competitive results in the official competition. Our findings demonstrate that systematic data engineering can be as impactful as--and often more deployable than--complex model modifications, offering actionable guidance for building robust multilingual search systems in the real-world e-commerce settings.

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