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Shadow answers as an intermediary in email answer retrieval

  • Alyaa Alfalahi
  • , Gunnar Eriksson
  • , Eriks Sneiders*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Stockholm University

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Abstract

A set of standard answers facilitates answering emails at customer care centers. Matching the text of user emails to the standard answers may not be productive because they do not necessarily have the same wording. Therefore we examine archived email-answer pairs and establish query-answer term co-occurrences. When a new user email arrives, we replace query words with most co-occurring answer words and obtain a “shadow answer”, which is a new query to retrieve standard answers. As a measure of term co-occurrence strength we test raw term co-occurrences and Pointwise Mutual Information.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationExperimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction - 6th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2015, Proceedings
EditorsEric San Juan, Jacques Savoy, Josiane Mothe, Jaap Kamps, Gareth J.F. Jones, Nicola Ferro, Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat, Linda Cappellato
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages209-214
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9783319240268
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event6th International Conference on Labs of the Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2015 - Toulouse, France
Duration: 8 Sept 201511 Sept 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9283
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference6th International Conference on Labs of the Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2015
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityToulouse
Period8/09/1511/09/15

Keywords

  • Email answering
  • Shadow answer
  • Statistical word associations

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