EMNLP 2022industry2 citations

Improving Large-Scale Conversational Assistants using Model Interpretation based Training Sample Selection

Stefan Schroedl, Manoj Kumar, Kiana Hajebi, Morteza Ziyadi, Sriram Venkatapathy, Anil Ramakrishna, Rahul Gupta, Pradeep Natarajan

Abstract

This paper presents an approach to identify samples from live traffic where the customer implicitly communicated satisfaction with Alexa’s responses, by leveraging interpretations of model behavior. Such customer signals are noisy and adding a large number of samples from live traffic to training set makes re-training infeasible. Our work addresses these challenges by identifying a small number of samples that grow training set by ~0.05% while producing statistically significant improvements in both offline and online tests.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{schroedl-etal-2022-improving,
    title = "Improving Large-Scale Conversational Assistants using Model Interpretation based Training Sample Selection",
    author = "Schroedl, Stefan  and
      Kumar, Manoj  and
      Hajebi, Kiana  and
      Ziyadi, Morteza  and
      Venkatapathy, Sriram  and
      Ramakrishna, Anil  and
      Gupta, Rahul  and
      Natarajan, Pradeep",
    editor = "Li, Yunyao  and
      Lazaridou, Angeliki",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track",
    month = dec,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-industry.37/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-industry.37",
    pages = "371--378"
}