Review Keyword Extraction for E-commerce Recommendation Matching

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional e-commerce platforms rely on keyword-based search queries and generic customer categorization, which can lead to ineffective discovery of merchant offerings, as they do not adequately leverage customer reviews to tailor recommendations to individual customers.

Innovation Solution

The system extracts keywords from positive customer reviews, matches customer attributes with reviewer attributes, and uses this information to enhance search results and generate recommendations, associating relevant merchant offerings with customers based on attribute correlations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If keyword-based search queries are used, then search functionality is provided, but search effectiveness is reduced due to dependence on merchant-specified keywords

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesearch effectivenessVSAvoidcustomer preference information
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary extraction of keywords and attributes from customer reviews before search queries are executed. This pre-processing stores valuable customer preference information in advance, enabling the search system to leverage this information without requiring merchants to specify keywords, thereby improving search effectiveness while preserving customer preference data

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary layer between the search query and merchant offerings by inserting extracted review-based keywords and attributes. This intermediary processing layer enriches the search results by matching customer queries with offerings based on actual customer feedback rather than relying solely on merchant-provided keywords, thus improving search precision without losing customer preference information

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If generic customer categorization is used, then recommendation generation is simplified, but recommendation accuracy deteriorates due to lack of individual customization

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverecommendation accuracyVSAvoidcustomer profiling complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments customer attributes into specific, extractable features from reviews (such as product attributes, usage scenarios, preferences) rather than using broad generic categories. This segmentation enables more precise matching between customer profiles and offerings while maintaining manageable complexity through automated extraction and structured organization of customer attributes

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables customer profiles to self-update and self-describe through automated extraction of attributes from their own reviews and interactions. This self-service approach builds detailed customer profiles without requiring complex manual profiling systems, as the data is automatically gathered and structured from customer-generated content, thereby improving recommendation accuracy without proportionally increasing system complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Productivity

If customer reviews are leveraged, then discovery process is enhanced, but system complexity increases due to review processing requirements

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvediscovery process efficiencyVSAvoidreview processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the essential keywords and attributes from customer reviews, separating the valuable information needed for discovery from the rest of the review content. This selective extraction process improves discovery efficiency by focusing on relevant features while keeping processing complexity manageable through targeted rather than comprehensive analysis of review data

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary processing and extraction of keywords from reviews in advance, storing them in a structured format before they are needed for the discovery process. This pre-extraction reduces the computational burden during actual discovery operations, improving productivity while managing complexity by performing intensive processing beforehand rather than in real-time

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11823248B2Systems and methods for using keywords extracted from reviews
Publication Date: 2023.11.21 SHOPIFY INC
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AI summary

Methods and systems for generating recommendations are disclosed. In some examples, from a set of positive reviews associated with a merchant offering, at least one attribute is identified and associated with the set of positive reviews, based on reviewer profiles associated with each respective positive review. The attribute is associated with the merchant offering. A match is determined between a customer attribute in a first customer profile and the at least one attribute. A set of recommendations is generated to be presented, via a customer electronic device, to a customer associated with the first customer profile, the set of recommendations including the merchant offering associated with at least one attribute.