activity
20212023
most citedAn Effective, Performant Named Entity Recognition System for Noisy Business Telephone Conversation Transcripts

5 citations · 6 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

7 papers

cs.CL2023

AI Coach Assist: An Automated Approach for Call Recommendation in Contact Centers for Agent Coaching

Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Cheng Chen, Xue-Yong Fu +3

In recent years, the utilization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the contact center industry is on the rise. One area where AI can have a significant impact is in the coaching o…

cs.CL2022★ 5 cited

An Effective, Performant Named Entity Recognition System for Noisy Business Telephone Conversation Transcripts

Xue-Yong Fu, Cheng Chen, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar +2

We present a simple yet effective method to train a named entity recognition (NER) model that operates on business telephone conversation transcripts that contain noise due to the…

cs.CL2022

Extracting Similar Questions From Naturally-occurring Business Conversations

Xiliang Zhu, David Rossouw, Shayna Gardiner +1

Pre-trained contextualized embedding models such as BERT are a standard building block in many natural language processing systems. We demonstrate that the sentence-level represent…

cs.CL2022

Punctuation Restoration in Spanish Customer Support Transcripts using Transfer Learning

Xiliang Zhu, Shayna Gardiner, David Rossouw +2

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems typically produce unpunctuated transcripts that have poor readability. In addition, building a punctuation restoration system is challeng…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Developing a Production System for Purpose of Call Detection in Business Phone Conversations

Elena Khasanova, Pooja Hiranandani, Shayna Gardiner +3

For agents at a contact centre receiving calls, the most important piece of information is the reason for a given call. An agent cannot provide support on a call if they do not kno…

cs.CL2022

BLINK with Elasticsearch for Efficient Entity Linking in Business Conversations

Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Cheng Chen, Aliaksandr Martsinovich +4

An Entity Linking system aligns the textual mentions of entities in a text to their corresponding entries in a knowledge base. However, deploying a neural entity linking system for…

cs.CL2021

Improving Punctuation Restoration for Speech Transcripts via External Data

Xue-Yong Fu, Cheng Chen, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar +2

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems generally do not produce punctuated transcripts. To make transcripts more readable and follow the expected input format for downstream la…