The Coveo Data Challenge: Aftermath of SIGIR Ecom 2021
The 2021 edition of SIGIR eCom is just past us. As typical for one of the leading venues for Information Retrieval in ecommerce, we had the chance to listen to…
About Jacopo Tagliabue
Jacopo Tagliabue recently became Lead AI Scientist at Coveo after the acquisition of his own startup, Tooso, in 2019. In previous lives, he managed to get a Ph.D., do scienc-y things for a pro basketball team, simulate a pre-Columbian civilization, give an academic talk on video games and more! His research and industry work have been featured several times in international conferences and the general press.
Coveo Hosts SIGIR Ecom Data Challenge
As devoted readers know, we often remark that a huge portion of Ecommerce research is hardly relevant for practitioners outside of the few retail giants who lead the space. This…
The Sunny Side of Conversion: How Local Climate Influences Shopping Behavior
We don’t need sophisticated Machine Learning to know that many products in Ecommerce are seasonal – we buy swimsuits in the summer and jackets in the winter, scuba diving equipment…
Sharing Is Caring: Our First Dataset Release for The AI Community
Today, we are beyond thrilled to announce the release of our first anonymous shopping dataset to the AI community. This release follows the recent publication of our article on intent…
The Vectors That Came in From The Cold: Improving “Cold Start” at Scale in a Multi-tenant SaaS Scenario
In some previous installments of this exciting series, we described – at length – the super cool concept of product vectors (or “embeddings”), and how they can be used to…
Looking Back, Going Forward: 12 Months of Coveo AI Labs
At a time where our softmax function over possible futures looks pretty uncertain, we are happy and proud to share that our AI is here to stay. In the last…
(Definitely Not) Lost in Translation: ‘Translating’ Products for Multi-Brand Personalization
In a hyper-competitive market, with few recurrent users and high bounce rates, it is crucial to personalize as early as possible in the shopper journey. The good news is that…
How to Grow a (Product) Tree: Building personalized category suggestions with Ludwig
Today, we build on our latest AI research and show how you can improve any type-ahead system with category suggestions which are AI-driven, that is, those that are able to…
Mind-reading as you type: how to provide personalized query suggestions to new shoppers
To each her own (query suggestion) “Before you (I) go, can you read my mind?” (Almost) The Killers Both Alice and Bob clicked on a Facebook promotion that brought them…
Making computers as smart as…babies: What Artificial Intelligence can learn from Diaper Intelligence
The dark side of “Big Data” A.I. “How many Youtube cats must Hal see, before Hal calls this a cat?” Bob Dylan, feat. Stanley Kubrick In the golden age of…