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Code-Mixed Reviews Harm E-commerce Recommendations in Bangladesh

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A new research paper explores the challenges of personalized recommendations on e-commerce platforms in Bangladesh, specifically focusing on the code-mixed language used in product reviews. The study, conducted on data from Daraz Bangladesh, evaluates various recommendation models and finds that Item-based Collaborative Filtering is the most stable approach. The research highlights that the fragmentation of the Banglish vocabulary, a mix of Bengali and English transliterated into Latin script, significantly degrades recommendation quality. AI

IMPACT Highlights challenges in recommendation systems due to linguistic diversity in user-generated content.

RANK_REASON Research paper published on arXiv detailing findings on recommendation systems. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

Read on arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) →

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Code-Mixed Reviews Harm E-commerce Recommendations in Bangladesh

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Nafis Sadeq ·

    Leveraging Code-Mixed Product Metadata and User Feedback for Personalized Recommendation on Daraz Bangladesh

    Bangladeshi e-commerce platforms host millions of product reviews written in Bengali Unicode, English, and Banglish, where Bengali is phonetically transcribed in Latin script. However, the impact of code-mixed reviews on recommendation performance remains largely unexplored. We p…

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