TaskBridge: Technical Report for SIGIR 2026 eCommerce Challenge
Zhiheng Fu, Yupeng Hu, Zixu Li, Zhiwei Chen, Qinlei Huang, Shaokun Wang, Han Liu, Fan Liu, Weili Guan, Liqiang Nie
Abstract
The SIGIR 2026 eCommerce Challenge Query Reformulation Task evaluates the reformulation of task-oriented queries into expressions suitable for product retrieval, followed by BM25-based retrieval. These queries often imply product needs through activity-level semantics, creating a lexical gap with catalog descriptions. Systems must preserve task intent while adapting the number of reformulations to the Automatic and Interactive protocols. We propose TaskBridge, a catalog-anchored framework comprising Catalog Semantic Anchoring, Unified Five-Candidate Rewriting, and Protocol-Aware Selection. It grounds queries in catalog vocabulary, generates five complementary reformulations, and selects one query for Automatic retrieval or up to four for Interactive retrieval using BM25 scores, query-product reranking, and weighted Jaccard overlap. The selected queries are independently executed using BM25 to produce results in the required six-column format. Experiments demonstrate improved retrieval effectiveness, with multiple complementary queries providing additional gains in the Interactive setting. TaskBridge achieved first place in the SIGIR 2026 eCommerce Challenge.
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