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Real-world Conversational AI for Hotel Bookings

Machine Learning 2019-08-28 v1 Computation and Language Machine Learning

Abstract

In this paper, we present a real-world conversational AI system to search for and book hotels through text messaging. Our architecture consists of a frame-based dialogue management system, which calls machine learning models for intent classification, named entity recognition, and information retrieval subtasks. Our chatbot has been deployed on a commercial scale, handling tens of thousands of hotel searches every day. We describe the various opportunities and challenges of developing a chatbot in the travel industry.

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@article{arxiv.1908.10001,
  title  = {Real-world Conversational AI for Hotel Bookings},
  author = {Bai Li and Nanyi Jiang and Joey Sham and Henry Shi and Hussein Fazal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.10001},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Accepted to IEEE AI4I 2019 (International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Industries)

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