How to classify Desk.com Support Tickets & Chats with generative AI
What is Text Classification?
Text classification is a natural language processing (NLP) technique that involves using machine learning algorithms to automatically assign one or more predefined categories or labels to a given piece of text. The algorithms typically learn from a training set of labeled text data and use statistical models to identify patterns and features in the text that can be used to classify new, unseen text data.
Text classification is used in a wide range of applications, from spam detection in emails to sentiment analysis in social media posts and reviews. It has become an essential tool for many industries that rely on large amounts of text data, helping to automate tasks and extract valuable insights from the data.
Example Use Cases
Use cases for classifying Desk.com support tickets include:
- Automatically classify tickets by urgency level
- Automatically classify tickets by category and subcategory
- Identify and classify spam tickets
- Automatically prioritize urgent tickets
- Reducing average resolution time
Teams that might find these use cases helpful include: customer support, customer success, product, operations, and finance.
Finding your input data and categories
You first need to identify the data that you want to work with. Here, we are looking at Desk.com tickets. You can extract this data using the Desk.com API, export it in CSV format, query a list of tickets from your data warehouse or BI tool, or copy and paste with an example ticket.
For more information on the Desk.com API see here: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.deskcom_api_rest/
Next, you need to find or create your list of categories for classifying the tickets. This might include ticket categories, ticket subcategories, or urgency levels.
Common examples of support ticket categories include:
- Technical issues
- Billing and payment issues
- Product information and features
- Customer feedback and suggestions
- Shipping and delivery issues
- Account management
- General inquiries
- Return and exchange requests
- Training and education
- Sales and marketing
Once you have your data and categories, you can use generative AI to automatically classify your Desk.com support tickets. This will help you to reduce the time it takes to process support tickets and ensure that tickets are routed to the correct point of contact.