Building Cross-Lingual End-to-End Product Search with Tensorflow · Han Xiao Tech Blog

Product search is one of the key components in an online retail store. Essentially, you need a system that matches a text query with a set of products in your store. A good product search can understand user's query in any language, retrieve as many relevant products as possible, and finally present the result as a list, in which the preferred products should be at the top, and the irrelevant products should be at the bottom. Google web search), products are structured data. A product is often described by a list of key-value pairs, a set of pictures and some free text. In the developers' world, Apache Solr and Elasticsearch are known as de-facto solutions for full-text search, making them a top contender for building e-commerce product search. At the core, Solr/Elasticsearch is a symbolic information retrieval (IR) system.