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Turn-level Dialog Evaluation with Dialog-level Weak Signals for Bot-Human Hybrid Customer Service Systems

Computation and Language 2020-11-13 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

We developed a machine learning approach that quantifies multiple aspects of the success or values in Customer Service contacts, at anytime during the interaction. Specifically, the value/reward function regarding to the turn-level behaviors across human agents, chatbots and other hybrid dialog systems is characterized by the incremental information and confidence gain between sentences, based on the token-level predictions from a multi-task neural network trained with only weak signals in dialog-level attributes/states. The resulting model, named Value Profiler, serves as a goal-oriented dialog manager that enhances conversations by regulating automated decisions with its reward and state predictions. It supports both real-time monitoring and scalable offline customer experience evaluation, for both bot- and human-handled contacts. We show how it improves Amazon customer service quality in several applications.

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@article{arxiv.2011.06395,
  title  = {Turn-level Dialog Evaluation with Dialog-level Weak Signals for Bot-Human Hybrid Customer Service Systems},
  author = {Ruofeng Wen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.06395},
  year   = {2020}
}