In this paper we propose and investigate a novel end-to-end method for automatically generating short email responses, called Smart Reply. It generates semantically diverse suggestions that can be used as complete email responses with just one tap on mobile. The system is currently used in Inbox by Gmail and is responsible for assisting with 10% of all mobile responses. It is designed to work at very high throughput and process hundreds of millions of messages daily. The system exploits state-of-the-art, large-scale deep learning. We describe the architecture of the system as well as the challenges that we faced while building it, like response diversity and scalability. We also introduce a new method for semantic clustering of user-generated content that requires only a modest amount of explicitly labeled data.
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@article{arxiv.1606.04870,
title = {Smart Reply: Automated Response Suggestion for Email},
author = {Anjuli Kannan and Karol Kurach and Sujith Ravi and Tobias Kaufmann and Andrew Tomkins and Balint Miklos and Greg Corrado and Laszlo Lukacs and Marina Ganea and Peter Young and Vivek Ramavajjala},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.04870},
year = {2016}
}