Conversational Document Prediction to Assist Customer Care Agents

Jatin Ganhotra, Haggai Roitman, Doron Cohen, Nathaniel Mills, Chulaka Gunasekara, Yosi Mass, Sachindra Joshi, Luis Lastras, David Konopnicki


Abstract
A frequent pattern in customer care conversations is the agents responding with appropriate webpage URLs that address users’ needs. We study the task of predicting the documents that customer care agents can use to facilitate users’ needs. We also introduce a new public dataset which supports the aforementioned problem. Using this dataset and two others, we investigate state-of-the art deep learning (DL) and information retrieval (IR) models for the task. Additionally, we analyze the practicality of such systems in terms of inference time complexity. Our show that an hybrid IR+DL approach provides the best of both worlds.
Anthology ID:
2020.emnlp-main.25
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Month:
November
Year:
2020
Address:
Online
Venue:
EMNLP
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
349–356
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.25
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.25
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Cite (ACL):
Jatin Ganhotra, Haggai Roitman, Doron Cohen, Nathaniel Mills, Chulaka Gunasekara, Yosi Mass, Sachindra Joshi, Luis Lastras, and David Konopnicki. 2020. Conversational Document Prediction to Assist Customer Care Agents. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 349–356, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Conversational Document Prediction to Assist Customer Care Agents (Ganhotra et al., EMNLP 2020)
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PDF:
https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-script-update/2020.emnlp-main.25.pdf
Video:
 https://slideslive.com/38938896
Code
 IBM/twitter-customer-care-document-prediction
Data
Twitter Conversations Dataset