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"abstract": "Prompt and knowledgeable responses to customers' emails are critical in maximizing customer satisfaction. Such emails often contain complaints about unfair treatment due to negligence, incompetence, rigid protocols, unfriendly systems, and unresponsive personnel. In this paper, we refer to these emails as emotional emails. They provide valuable feedback to improve contact center processes and customer care, as well as, to enhance customer retention. This paper describes a method for extracting salient features and identifying emotional emails in customer care. Salient features reflect customer frustration, dissatisfaction with the business, and threats to either leave, take legal action and/or report to authorities. Compared to a baseline system using word ngrams, our proposed approach with salient features resulted in a 20% absolute Fmeasure improvement.",
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"text": "Prompt and knowledgeable responses to customers' emails are critical in maximizing customer satisfaction. Such emails often contain complaints about unfair treatment due to negligence, incompetence, rigid protocols, unfriendly systems, and unresponsive personnel. In this paper, we refer to these emails as emotional emails. They provide valuable feedback to improve contact center processes and customer care, as well as, to enhance customer retention. This paper describes a method for extracting salient features and identifying emotional emails in customer care. Salient features reflect customer frustration, dissatisfaction with the business, and threats to either leave, take legal action and/or report to authorities. Compared to a baseline system using word ngrams, our proposed approach with salient features resulted in a 20% absolute Fmeasure improvement.",
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"text": "Emails are becoming the preferred communication channel for customer service. For customers, it is a way to avoid long hold times on call centers phone calls and to keep a record of the information exchanges with the business. For businesses, it offers an opportunity to best utilize customer service representatives by evenly distributing the work load over time, and for representatives, it allows time to research the issue and respond to the customers in a manner consistent with business policies. Businesses can further exploit the offline nature of this channel by automatically routing the emails involving critical issues to specialized representatives. Besides concerns related to products and services, businesses ensure that emails complaining about unfair treatment due to negligence, incompetence, rigid protocols and unfriendly systems, are always handled with care. Such emails, referred to as emotional emails, are critical to reduce the churn i.e., retaining customers who otherwise would have taken their business elsewhere, and, at the same time, they are a valuable source of information for improving business processes.",
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"text": "In recurring service oriented businesses, a large number of customer emails may contain routine complaints. While such complaints are important and are addressed by customer service representatives, our purpose here is to identify emotional emails where severity of the complaints and customer dissatisfaction are relatively high. Emotional emails may contain abusive and probably emotionally charged language, but we are mainly interested in identifying messages where, in addition to the flames, the customer includes a concrete description of the problem experienced with the company providing the service. In the context of customer service, customers express their concerns in many ways. Sometimes they convey a negative emotional component articulated by phrases like disgusted and you suck. In other cases, there is a minimum emotional involvement by enumerating factual sentences such as you overcharged, or take my business elsewhere. In many cases, both the emotional and factual components are actually present. In this work, we have identified eight dif-ferent ways that customers use to express their emotions in emails. Throughout this paper, these ways will be referred to as Salient Features. We cast the identification of emotional email as a text classification problem, and show that using salient features we can significantly improve the identification accuracy. Compared to a baseline system which uses Boosting (Schapire, 1999) withnword n-grams features, our proposed system using salient features resulted in improvement in f-measure from 0.52 to 0.72.",
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"text": "Research has also been done in predicting basic emotions (also referred to as affects) within text Liu et al., 2003) . To render speech with prosodic contour conveying the emotional content of the text, one of 6 types of human emotions (e.g., angry, disgusted, fearful, happy, sad, and surprised) are identified for each sentence in the running text. Deducing such emotions from lexical constructs is a hard problem evidenced by little agreement among humans. A Kappa value of 0.24-0.51 was shown in . Liu et al. (2003) have argued that the absence of affect laden surface features i.e., key words, from the text does not imply absence of emotions, therefore they have relied more on common-sense knowledge. Instead of deducing types emotions in each sentence, we are interested in knowing if the entire email is emotional or not. Additionally we are also interested in the intensity and the cause of those emotions.",
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"text": "For detecting emotional emails we used Boostexter as text classification. Our choice of machine learning algorithm was not strategic and we have no reason to believe that SVMs or maximum entropybased classifiers will not perform equally well. Boostexter, which is based on the boosting family of algorithms, was first proposed by Schapire (1999) . It has been applied successfully to numerous text classification applications (Gupta et al., 2005) at AT&T. Boosting builds a highly accurate classifier by combining many \"weak\" base classifiers, each one of which may only be moderately accurate. Boosting constructs the collection of base classifiers iteratively. On each iteration t, the boosting algorithm supplies the base learner weighted training data and the base learner generates a base classifier h t . Set of nonnegative weights w t encode how important it is that h t correctly classifies each email. Generally, emails that were most often misclassified by the preceding base classifiers will be given the most weight so as to force the base learner to focus on the \"hardest\" examples. As described in Schapire and Singer (1999) , Boostexter uses confidence rated base classifiers h that for every example x (in our case it is the customer emails) output a real number h(x) whose sign (-1 or +1) is interpreted as a prediction(+1 indicates emotional email), and whose magnitude |h(x)| is a measure of \"confidence.\" The output of the final classifier f is f (x) = T t=1 h t (x), i.e., the sum of confidence of all classifiers h t . The real-valued predictions of the final classifier f can be mapped onto a confidence value between 0 and 1 by a logistic function;",
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"text": "To extract salient features from an email, eight separate lists of phrases customers use to express each of the salient features were manually created. These lists were extracted from the training data and can be considered as basic rules that identify emotional emails. In the labeling guide for critical emails labelers were instructed to look for salient features in the email and keep a list of encountered phrases. We further enriched these lists by: a) using general knowledge of English, we added variations to existing phrases and b) searching a large body of email text (different from testing) for different phrases in which key words from known phrases participated. For example from the known phrase lied to we used the word lied and found a phrase blatantly lied. Using these lists we extracted eight binary salient features for each email, indicating presence/absence of phrases from the corresponding list in the email. ",
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