Dialogue Quality and Emotion Annotations for Customer Support Conversations

John Mendonca, Patrícia Pereira, Miguel Menezes, Vera Cabarrão, Ana C Farinha, Helena Moniz, Alon Lavie, Isabel Trancoso


Abstract
Task-oriented conversational datasets often lack topic variability and linguistic diversity. However, with the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) pretrained on extensive, multilingual and diverse text data, these limitations seem overcome. Nevertheless, their generalisability to different languages and domains in dialogue applications remains uncertain without benchmarking datasets. This paper presents a holistic annotation approach for emotion and conversational quality in the context of bilingual customer support conversations. By performing annotations that take into consideration the complete instances that compose a conversation, one can form a broader perspective of the dialogue as a whole. Furthermore, it provides a unique and valuable resource for the development of text classification models. To this end, we present benchmarks for Emotion Recognition and Dialogue Quality Estimation and show that further research is needed to leverage these models in a production setting.
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2023.gem-1.2
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Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM)
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December
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2023
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Singapore
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Sebastian Gehrmann, Alex Wang, João Sedoc, Elizabeth Clark, Kaustubh Dhole, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Enrico Santus, Hooman Sedghamiz
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GEM | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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9–21
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John Mendonca, Patrícia Pereira, Miguel Menezes, Vera Cabarrão, Ana C Farinha, Helena Moniz, Alon Lavie, and Isabel Trancoso. 2023. Dialogue Quality and Emotion Annotations for Customer Support Conversations. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM), pages 9–21, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Dialogue Quality and Emotion Annotations for Customer Support Conversations (Mendonca et al., GEM-WS 2023)
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