ScopeIt: Scoping Task Relevant Sentences in Documents

02/23/2020
by   Vishwas Suryanarayanan, et al.
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Intelligent assistants like Cortana, Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant are trained to parse information when the conversation is synchronous and short; however, for email-based conversational agents, the communication is asynchronous, and often contains information irrelevant to the assistant. This makes it harder for the system to accurately detect intents, extract entities relevant to those intents and thereby perform the desired action. We present a neural model for scoping relevant information for the agent from a large query. We show that when used as a preprocessing step, the model improves performance of both intent detection and entity extraction tasks. We demonstrate the model's impact on Scheduler (Cortana is the persona of the agent, while Scheduler is the name of the service. We use them interchangeably in the context of this paper.) - a virtual conversational meeting scheduling assistant that interacts asynchronously with users through email. The model helps the entity extraction and intent detection tasks requisite by Scheduler achieve an average gain of 35 demonstrate that the same approach can be used for component level analysis in large documents, such as signature block identification.

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