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Published in: Electronic Commerce Research 4/2019

08-02-2019

Customs classification for cross-border e-commerce based on text-image adaptive convolutional neural network

Authors: Guo Li, Na Li

Published in: Electronic Commerce Research | Issue 4/2019

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Abstract

Customs classification is an essential international procedure to import cross-border goods traded by various companies and individuals. Proper classification of such goods with high efficiency in light of the rapidly increasing amount of international trade is still challenging. The current abundant e-commence data and advanced machine learning techniques provide an opportunity for cross-border e-commerce sellers to classify goods efficiently. Thus, in this paper, we propose a text-image adaptive convolutional neural network to effectively utilize website information and facilitate the customs classification process. The proposed model includes two independent submodels: one for text and the other for image. The submodels are fused by a novel method, which can adjust the value of parameters according to the model training result. Finally, we conduct a case study and comparison experiments based on a group of customs tariff codes and a data set from an e-commerce website. Experiment results indicate the effectiveness of text and image combination in performance improvement, the outperformance of the adaptive fusion method, as well as the potential of this approach when applied to customs classification.
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Metadata
Title
Customs classification for cross-border e-commerce based on text-image adaptive convolutional neural network
Authors
Guo Li
Na Li
Publication date
08-02-2019
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Electronic Commerce Research / Issue 4/2019
Print ISSN: 1389-5753
Electronic ISSN: 1572-9362
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-019-09334-x

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