This proceedings contains the accepted papers of the SIGIR 2018 Workshop on eCommerce (ECOM18), a full day workshop that took place on July 12, 2018 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. The workshop was held in conjunction with SIGIR 2018. The purpose of the workshop was to serve as a platform for publication and discussion of Information Retrieval and NLP research and their applications in the domain of eCommerce. eCommerce Information Retrieval has received little attention in the academic literature, yet it is an essential component of some of the largest web sites (such as eBay, Amazon, Airbnb, Alibaba, Taobao, Target, Facebook, and others). The SIGIR 2018 Workshop on eCommerce (ECOM18) brought together researchers and practitioners of eCommerce IR to discuss topics unique to it, to set a research agenda going forward, and to examine how to build a data set for research. Our primary motivation as organizers of this workshop was to create a community and act as a forum to discuss interesting research challenges in the eCommerce domain.
Young Joo Chung, Rakuten institute of technology Fahmida Hamid, University of North Texas Yifan He, Alibaba Inc.
Ajinkya Kale, COEP Tracy Holloway King, eBay Julian Mcauley, University of California San Diego Alistair Moffat, The University of Melbourne Owen Phelan, University College Dublin Utkarsh Porwal, University at Buffalo-SUNY Christopher Severs, Amazon Search Mohit Sharma, WalmartLabs Ian Soboroff, NIST Manas Somaiya, LinkedIn Parikshit Sondhi, Neulogic, Inc.
Thrivikrama Taula, Apple Inc Shanchan Wu, Alibaba Group