Bringing the State-of-the-Art to Customers: A Neural Agent Assistant Framework for Customer Service Support

Stephen Obadinma, Faiza Khan Khattak, Shirley Wang, Tania Sidhorn, Elaine Lau, Sean Robertson, Jingcheng Niu, Winnie Au, Alif Munim, Karthik Raja Kalaiselvi Bhaskar


Abstract
Building Agent Assistants that can help improve customer service support requires inputs from industry users and their customers, as well as knowledge about state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology. We combine expertise from academia and industry to bridge the gap and build task/domain-specific Neural Agent Assistants (NAA) with three high-level components for: (1) Intent Identification, (2) Context Retrieval, and (3) Response Generation. In this paper, we outline the pipeline of the NAA’s core system and also present three case studies in which three industry partners successfully adapt the framework to find solutions to their unique challenges. Our findings suggest that a collaborative process is instrumental in spurring the development of emerging NLP models for Conversational AI tasks in industry. The full reference implementation code and results are available at https://github.com/VectorInstitute/NAA.
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2022.emnlp-industry.44
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track
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December
Year:
2022
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Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Yunyao Li, Angeliki Lazaridou
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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440–450
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-industry.44
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-industry.44
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Stephen Obadinma, Faiza Khan Khattak, Shirley Wang, Tania Sidhorn, Elaine Lau, Sean Robertson, Jingcheng Niu, Winnie Au, Alif Munim, and Karthik Raja Kalaiselvi Bhaskar. 2022. Bringing the State-of-the-Art to Customers: A Neural Agent Assistant Framework for Customer Service Support. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track, pages 440–450, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Bringing the State-of-the-Art to Customers: A Neural Agent Assistant Framework for Customer Service Support (Obadinma et al., EMNLP 2022)
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