README.md

---
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  - split: test
    path: queries/test-*
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    path: sources/train-*
  - split: test
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license: apache-2.0
task_categories:
- text-classification
- token-classification
- text-generation
- sentence-similarity
language:
- en
- ja
- es
tags:
- amazon
- retrieval
- search
- ecommerce
- ranking
- reranking
size_categories:
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---

# Amazon Shopping Queries Dataset

Dataset for improving product search, ranking and recommendations, featuring query-product pairs with detailed relevance labels.

## Overview
The dataset contains search queries paired with up to 40 potentially relevant products, each labeled using the ESCI system:
- **E**xact match: Products that perfectly match the customer's search intent (e.g., searching "iPhone 13" and finding "Apple iPhone 13 128GB")
- **S**ubstitute product: Alternative products that could satisfy the same need (e.g., searching "iPhone 13" and finding "iPhone 14" or "Samsung Galaxy S23")
- **C**omplement product: Products commonly bought together with the searched item (e.g., searching "iPhone 13" and finding "iPhone 13 case" or "screen protector")
- **I**rrelevant result: Products that don't match the customer's search intent (e.g., searching "iPhone 13" and finding "laptop charger")

## Dataset Statistics
### Reduced Version (Task 1)
- 48,300 unique queries
- 1,118,011 query-product pairs
- **Focus**: Filtered to exclude "easy" queries, making it more challenging
- Language distribution:
  - English (US): 29,844 queries
  - Spanish (ES): 8,049 queries
  - Japanese (JP): 10,407 queries

### Full Version (Tasks 2 & 3)
- 130,652 unique queries
- 2,621,738 query-product pairs
- **Focus**: Includes both easy and challenging queries
- Language distribution:
  - English (US): 97,345 queries
  - Spanish (ES): 15,180 queries
  - Japanese (JP): 18,127 queries

## Features
- Rich product metadata including:
  - Product title
  - Product description
  - Product bullet points
  - Brand information
  - Color information
- Multilingual support (English, Japanese, Spanish)
- Train/test splits for each task

## Download
Install `datasets` library:
```bash
pip install datasets
```
Donwload files:
```python
from datasets import load_dataset

queries = load_dataset(path="milistu/amazon-esci-data", name="queries", split=["train", "test"])
products = load_dataset(path="milistu/amazon-esci-data", name="products", split=["train", "test"])
sources = load_dataset(path="milistu/amazon-esci-data", name="sources", split=["train", "test"])
```

## Use Cases
1. **Product Ranking**: Develop algorithms to rank relevant products higher in search results
2. **Relevance Classification**: Build models to classify products as Exact, Substitute, Complement, or Irrelevant
3. **Substitute Detection**: Identify substitute products for improved product recommendations
4. **Semantic Search**: Train embedding models (like BERT, sentence-transformers) to:
    - Capture semantic similarity between queries and products
    - Handle long-tail queries with no exact keyword matches
    - Understand product relationships across categories
    - Example: Query "comfortable running shoes for marathon" can match with "Nike Air Zoom Alphafly" even without exact keyword overlap

## Citation
Originally sourced from ["Shopping Queries Dataset: A Large-Scale ESCI Benchmark for Improving Product Search"](https://github.com/amazon-science/esci-data?tab=readme-ov-file), this version is optimized for machine learning applications and semantic search research.
```
@article{reddy2022shopping,
title={Shopping Queries Dataset: A Large-Scale {ESCI} Benchmark for Improving Product Search},
author={Chandan K. Reddy and Lluís Màrquez and Fran Valero and Nikhil Rao and Hugo Zaragoza and Sambaran Bandyopadhyay and Arnab Biswas and Anlu Xing and Karthik Subbian},
year={2022},
eprint={2206.06588},
archivePrefix={arXiv}
}
```