In plain words: A system that pulls relevant knowledge documents and past chat history to suggest replies for retail customer service agents, keeping answers grounded in real company information. It beat the company's current older text-model tools on both accuracy and relevance.
Abstract · RAG based Question-Answering for Contextual Response Prediction System
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown versatility in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, including their potential as effective question-answering systems. However, to provide precise and relevant information in response to specific customer queries in industry settings, LLMs require access to a comprehensive knowledge base to avoid hallucinations. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) emerges as a promising technique to address this challenge. Yet, developing an accurate question-answering framework for real-world applications using RAG entails several challenges: 1) data availability issues, 2) evaluating the quality of generated content, and 3) the costly nature of human evaluation. In this paper, we introduce an end-to-end framework that employs LLMs with RAG capabilities for industry use cases. Given a customer query, the proposed system retrieves relevant knowledge documents and leverages them, along with previous chat history, to generate response suggestions for customer service agents in the contact centers of a major retail company. Through comprehensive automated and human evaluations, we show that this solution outperforms the current BERT-based algorithms in accuracy and relevance. Our findings suggest that RAG-based LLMs can be an excellent support to human customer service representatives by lightening their workload.
Sriram Veturi, Saurabh Vaichal, Reshma Lal Jagadheesh, Nafis Irtiza Tripto, Nian Yan
arXiv:2409.03708 · cs.CL, cs.IR · submitted Sep 5, 2024 · updated Sep 6, 2024
abstract · pdf · html · Accepted at the 1st Workshop on GenAI and RAG Systems for Enterprise, CIKM'24. 6 pages