Wenjing Yang


2025

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Advancing E-commerce Merchants Telemarketing with Synthetic Data-Driven LLMs
Qi Gou | Zehua Xia | Li Juan | Qingyang Zhao | Wenjing Yang
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track

Telemarketing towards merchants is considerably more complex than traditional dialogue systems. Given a user utterance, the response must not only follow the context but also strategically and naturally guide the conversation toward marketing objectives. A common approach is to fine-tune LLMs using high-quality dialogue data from top sales. However, we find that even after careful data cleaning, these data cannot be used directly due to two issues:(1) Poor strategy-following: Real-world conversations are highly random with much chit-chat topics, easily leading deviation from intended strategy.(2) Insufficient expert knowledge learning: Expert knowledge appears infrequently or not at all in limited collected corpus.To this end, we introduce a hybrid data synthesis framework with two main innovations. First, we unify the input schema with profile and strategy designed by top sales, and extract them via a Multi-task paradigm.In addition, we propose Role-playing Simulation and Session Prefix Completion to complementarily improve the strategy-following and inject long-tail expert knowledge into our fine-tuned model – TeleBot.Comprehensive online and offline evaluations demonstrate its effectiveness.In particular, in terms of the final marketing results – High Intention Rate, TeleBot reaches the performance level of the top 25% of human sales.

2015

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KWB: An Automated Quick News System for Chinese Readers
Yiqi Bai | Wenjing Yang | Hao Zhang | Jingwen Wang | Ming Jia | Roland Tong | Jie Wang
Proceedings of the Eighth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing