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Home / Proceedings / Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence / EAAI-20

Surveys without Questions: A Reinforcement Learning Approach

February 1, 2023

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Authors

Atanu R Sinha

Adobe Research


Deepali Jain

Google


Nikhil Sheoran

Adobe Research


Sopan Khosla

Adobe Research


Reshmi Sasidharan

Adobe Research


DOI:

10.1609/aaai.v33i01.3301257


Abstract:

The ‘old world’ instrument, survey, remains a tool of choice for firms to obtain ratings of satisfaction and experience that customers realize while interacting online with firms. While avenues for survey have evolved from emails and links to pop-ups while browsing, the deficiencies persist. These include - reliance on ratings of very few respondents to infer about all customers’ online interactions; failing to capture a customer’s interactions over time since the rating is a one-time snapshot; and inability to tie back customers’ ratings to specific interactions because ratings provided relate to all interactions. To overcome these deficiencies we extract proxy ratings from clickstream data, typically collected for every customer’s online interactions, by developing an approach based on Reinforcement Learning (RL). We introduce a new way to interpret values generated by the value function of RL, as proxy ratings. Our approach does not need any survey data for training. Yet, on validation against actual survey data, proxy ratings yield reasonable performance results. Additionally, we offer a new way to draw insights from values of the value function, which allow associating specific interactions to their proxy ratings. We introduce two new metrics to represent ratings - one, customer-level and the other, aggregate-level for click actions across customers. Both are defined around proportion of all pairwise, successive actions that show increase in proxy ratings. This intuitive customer-level metric enables gauging the dynamics of ratings over time and is a better predictor of purchase than customer ratings from survey. The aggregate-level metric allows pinpointing actions that help or hurt experience. In sum, proxy ratings computed unobtrusively from clickstream, for every action, for each customer, and for every session can offer interpretable and more insightful alternative to surveys.

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Atanu R Sinha||Deepali Jain||Nikhil Sheoran||Sopan Khosla||Reshmi Sasidharan Surveys without Questions: A Reinforcement Learning Approach Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2019) 257-264.

Atanu R Sinha||Deepali Jain||Nikhil Sheoran||Sopan Khosla||Reshmi Sasidharan Surveys without Questions: A Reinforcement Learning Approach AAAI 2019, 257-264.

Atanu R Sinha||Deepali Jain||Nikhil Sheoran||Sopan Khosla||Reshmi Sasidharan (2019). Surveys without Questions: A Reinforcement Learning Approach. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 257-264.

Atanu R Sinha||Deepali Jain||Nikhil Sheoran||Sopan Khosla||Reshmi Sasidharan. Surveys without Questions: A Reinforcement Learning Approach. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2019 p.257-264.

Atanu R Sinha||Deepali Jain||Nikhil Sheoran||Sopan Khosla||Reshmi Sasidharan. 2019. Surveys without Questions: A Reinforcement Learning Approach. "Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence". 257-264.

Atanu R Sinha||Deepali Jain||Nikhil Sheoran||Sopan Khosla||Reshmi Sasidharan. (2019) "Surveys without Questions: A Reinforcement Learning Approach", Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, p.257-264

Atanu R Sinha||Deepali Jain||Nikhil Sheoran||Sopan Khosla||Reshmi Sasidharan, "Surveys without Questions: A Reinforcement Learning Approach", AAAI, p.257-264, 2019.

Atanu R Sinha||Deepali Jain||Nikhil Sheoran||Sopan Khosla||Reshmi Sasidharan. "Surveys without Questions: A Reinforcement Learning Approach". Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019, p.257-264.

Atanu R Sinha||Deepali Jain||Nikhil Sheoran||Sopan Khosla||Reshmi Sasidharan. "Surveys without Questions: A Reinforcement Learning Approach". Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (2019): 257-264.

Atanu R Sinha||Deepali Jain||Nikhil Sheoran||Sopan Khosla||Reshmi Sasidharan. Surveys without Questions: A Reinforcement Learning Approach. AAAI[Internet]. 2019[cited 2023]; 257-264.


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