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תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2502.01555v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Associating user search queries with the correct brand entity is critical for e-commerce product retrieval, yet remains challenging due to the brevity of queries (three to four words on average), their lack of grammatical structure, and a catalog of hundreds of thousands of distinct brands. We formulate this as a brand entity linking task and develop two complementary solutions deployed at scale: (1) a cascaded pipeline that first detects brand mentions via sequence labeling and then disambiguates against a brand knowledge base, and (2) a single-stage approach that frames linking as extreme multiclass classification, directly mapping queries to brand identifiers. Through extensive multilingual evaluation (11 languages) and a control