How to classify LiveAgent Support Tickets & Chats with generative AI
As a customer-focused company, it's important to address customer concerns quickly and efficiently. However, manually classifying support tickets and chats by category and urgency level can be a time-consuming and error-prone task. To help you automate this task and improve customer satisfaction, we'll show you how to use generative AI to automatically classify LiveAgent support tickets and chats.
What is Text Classification?
Text classification is a natural language processing (NLP) technique that involves using machine learning algorithms to automatically assign predefined categories or labels to a given piece of text. The algorithms learn from a training set of labeled text data and use statistical models to identify patterns and features in the text for classifying new, unseen text data.
Text classification is used in various applications, from spam detection in emails to sentiment analysis in social media posts and reviews. It has become a crucial tool for industries that rely on large amounts of text data to automate tasks and extract valuable insights.
Example Use Cases
Use cases for classifying LiveAgent support tickets and chats include:
- Automatically classify tickets and chats by urgency level
- Automatically classify tickets and chats by category and subcategory
- Identify and classify spam tickets and chats
- Automatically prioritize urgent tickets and chats
- 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. In this case, we are looking at LiveAgent support tickets and chats. You can extract this data using the LiveAgent API, export it in CSV format, query a list of tickets and chats from your data warehouse or BI tool, or copy and paste with an example ticket or chat.
For more information on the LiveAgent API, see here: https://developers.liveagent.com/
Next, you need to find or create your list of categories for classifying the tickets and chats. This might include ticket and chat categories, ticket and chat subcategories, or urgency levels.
Common examples of support ticket and chat 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 LiveAgent support tickets and chats. This will help you to reduce the time it takes to process support tickets and chats and ensure that tickets and chats are routed to the correct point of contact.