{"id":527,"date":"2022-02-08T16:51:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T16:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/?p=527"},"modified":"2022-02-08T16:51:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T16:51:05","slug":"when-machines-meet-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/when-machines-meet-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"When Machines Meet Conversations!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Conversational_Intelligence-1024x602.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-528\" width=\"535\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Conversational_Intelligence-1024x602.png 1024w, https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Conversational_Intelligence-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Conversational_Intelligence-768x451.png 768w, https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Conversational_Intelligence-1536x902.png 1536w, https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Conversational_Intelligence-1200x705.png 1200w, https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Conversational_Intelligence.png 1966w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 535px) 85vw, 535px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>To say that human conversations are complex is an understatement.&nbsp; Our communication prowess depends on where we learnt a language, our teachers, our educational level, and other factors.&nbsp; More complexity arises when conversations involves persuasion, negotiation, and other threads involving a back and forth exchange &#8211; that must be tracked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thankfully, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commonsense_knowledge_(artificial_intelligence)\">common knowledge<\/a> possessed by humans is a critical prop to understanding a conversation.&nbsp; For example, a customer quickly grasps a contact center agent\u2019s pitch to offer a telecom plan at a competitive price.&nbsp; At this point the customer may negotiate and receive a counter offer.&nbsp; Both parties are aware of negotiation as a process.&nbsp; Here is a sample of a real conversational exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ConvInt_Conversation-1024x733.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-529\" width=\"439\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ConvInt_Conversation-1024x733.png 1024w, https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ConvInt_Conversation-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ConvInt_Conversation-768x550.png 768w, https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ConvInt_Conversation-1200x859.png 1200w, https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ConvInt_Conversation.png 1310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 439px) 85vw, 439px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If machines could similarly and accurately understand contextual detail it would amplify productivity at contact centers.&nbsp; For example, a supervisor of customer service agents could instantly obtain a granular analyses of sub optimal product pitches \u2013 automatically for all conversations &#8211; and help her team members improve performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Machines have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aiperspectives.com\/natural-language-processing\/#meaning\">struggled to understand<\/a> such conversations because current language engines typically depend on keyword-type searches for identification of language patterns.&nbsp; However, the emergence of <a href=\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/seat-of-knowledge-ai-systems-with-deeply-structure-knowledge-37f1a5ab4bc5\">knowledge-based A.I.<\/a> and its application to Natural Language Understanding (NLU) has made it possible to accurately understand a complete, complex conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.auisys.com\">AUI Systems<\/a> is applying this knowledge-based NLU accurately to conversations to identify risk, improve customer experience, and increase revenue at contact centers.&nbsp; We\u2019ll delve deeper in Part 2 of this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To say that human conversations are complex is an understatement.&nbsp; Our communication prowess depends on where we learnt a language, our teachers, our educational level, and other factors.&nbsp; More complexity arises when conversations involves persuasion, negotiation, and other threads involving a back and forth exchange &#8211; that must be tracked. Thankfully, common knowledge possessed by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/when-machines-meet-conversations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When Machines Meet Conversations!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"authors":[{"term_id":16,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"harpal","display_name":"Harpal Parmar"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auisys.com\/nlu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}