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Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 07, 2021
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Jacob Lewis, New York City, NY (US);

Ruchi Asthana, New York, NY (US);

Jennifer A. Mallette, Vienna, VA (US);

Steven Ware Jones, Astoria, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/02 (2022.01); G06F 40/30 (2020.01); H04L 51/046 (2022.01); G06Q 30/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/02 (2013.01); G06F 40/30 (2020.01); G06Q 30/016 (2013.01); H04L 51/046 (2013.01);
Abstract

In an approach for identifying when transferring a real-time conversation on a chatbot application to a customer support agent would be more valuable than outputting suggested queries, a processor classifies a query inputted into a real-time conversation as an intention. A processor predicts a set of next intentions of the user. A processor filters out one or more intentions from the set of next intentions of the user that do not further the real-time conversation. A processor generates a set of suggested queries the user can ask to further the real-time conversation from the subset of next intentions. A processor builds a suggestion evaluation contextual bandit model that determines whether the real-time conversation will be resolved successfully if transferred to a customer support agent. A processor trains the suggestion evaluation contextual bandit model against a set of annotated historical interactions. A processor outputs a response recommendation.


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