The Walmart.com Journey Towards Spanish Query Understanding (Part 1)

Opportunity statement and challenges

Online stores in the United States offer a unique scenario for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) due to the mix of Spanish and English inside and across queries. While State-of-the-art Machine Translation (MT) provides an opportunity to lift relevance by translating the Spanish queries to English before delivering them to the search engine, there are domain specific challenges in product search that render the raw application of generic MT an impractical solution.

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