Interactive Search with Contextual Navigation Recommendations.

We present an interactive search assistance agent that integrates search and recommendation-based experiences into a novel unified presentation. The agent guides the user toward more desirable inventory, while also satisfying the constraints that the user constructs with the help of the agent. We built a prototype which supports this mechanism by connecting to the search functionality on eBay. We have also created the popularity knowledge-base of the agent by aggregating data from billions of user transactions. The accompanying video demonstrates the resulting prototype in this context.