Conversational information seeking

H Zamani, JR Trippas, J Dalton… - … and Trends® in …, 2023 - nowpublishers.com
Conversational information seeking (CIS) is concerned with a sequence of interactions
between one or more users and an information system. Interactions in CIS are primarily …

Neural personalized response generation as domain adaptation

WN Zhang, Q Zhu, Y Wang, Y Zhao, T Liu - World Wide Web, 2019 - Springer
One of the most crucial problem on training personalized response generation models for
conversational robots is the lack of large scale personal conversation data. To address the …

Improving customer routing in contact centers: An automated triage design based on text analytics

N Ilk, G Shang, P Goes - Journal of Operations Management, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We propose an automated triage design for intelligent customer routing in live‐chat contact
centers and demonstrate its implementation using a real‐world data set from an S&P 500 …

Factors influencing live customer support chat services: an empirical investigation in Kuwait

A Elmorshidy, MM Mostafa, I El-Moughrabi… - Journal of theoretical …, 2015 - SciELO Chile
This study investigates factors influencing live customer support chat services in Kuwait. Live
Customer Support Chat represents a newly implemented type of customer service in E …

Understanding the antecedents and consequences of live chat use in electronic markets

L Kang, X Wang, CH Tan, JL Zhao - Journal of Organizational …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Online shopping has progressed from having consumers passively browse through the
webpages of online stores to having them proactively engage in communication dialogues …

Gender-based conversational interface preferences in live chat systems for financial services

MS Manshad, DC Brannon - Journal of Financial Services Marketing, 2023 - Springer
Chatbots have become an important part of the financial services ecosystem. To
accommodate their rise, many financial firms have turned to button-input interfaces that …

A text analytics framework for automated communication pattern analysis

S Fan, N Ilk - Information & Management, 2020 - Elsevier
Human-coding reliant conversation analysis methods are ineffective when analyzing large
volumes of data. In this paper, we propose a text analytics framework for automated …

The effect of a multichannel customer service system on customer service and financial performance

TW Lui, G Piccoli - ACM Transactions on Management Information …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Customer service is an important competitive lever for the modern firm. At the same time, the
continuous evolution and performance improvements in information technology (IT) …

Using IBM watson cloud services to build natural language processing solutions to leverage chat tools

S Packowski, A Lakhana - Proceedings of the 27th Annual International …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Chat tools are changing the way companies engage with customers. On the one hand, these
tools have tremendous benefits. They can provide an excellent experience for customers …

Do cognitive and affective expressions matter in purchase conversion? A live chat perspective

L Kang, CH Tan, JL Zhao - Journal of the Association for …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Live chat, which is embedded in some shopping websites, allows a retailer to communicate
with its shoppers directly and respond to their inquiries promptly. We extended the Speech …