Method and system for pro-active detection and correction of low quality questions in a question and answer based customer support system
First Claim
1. A method for pro-active detection and correction of low quality questions submitted to a question and answer based customer support system, the method comprising:
- providing a computing system implemented tax preparation software system to one or more users;
providing users of the computing system implemented tax preparation software system a question and answer based customer support system through which question data can be entered by the users, the question data representing questions to potentially be provided to one or more support personnel associated with the question and answer based customer support system so that the questions represented by the question data can be answered by at least one of the one or more support personnel;
defining low quality question formats that are predicted to result in answers that will have user satisfaction ratings below a threshold level of user satisfaction, wherein low quality question formats that are predicted to result in answers that will have user satisfaction ratings below a threshold level of user satisfaction include;
“
Who”
question formats,“
What”
question formats,“
When”
question formats,“
Where”
question formats,“
Why”
question formats,“
How”
question formats,rhetorical question formats,grammatically incorrect question formats, andill-formed question formats;
defining questions having low quality question formats as improperly formatted questions;
continuously receiving, through a user interface of the question and answer customer support system, a character at a time, question data representing a question in the process of being submitted by one of the one or more users while dynamically analyzing a format of the received question data as it is being submitted, and providing one or more transformation instructions through the user interface as single characters of the question are being received, the format transformation instructions providing guidance for transforming an improperly formatted question into a properly formatted question, the guidance for transforming an improperly formatted question being customized, prior to being provided, to the question being submitted through the user interface, the analysis including determining whether the question begins with an auxiliary verb and also determining whether a multiple choice answer is embedded in the question; and
upon a determination being made, based on the analysis of the question data, that the question data represents an improperly formatted question, taking one or more corrective actions before providing the question data to the one or more support personnel.
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Abstract
User satisfaction with answers that may be provided through a question and answer based customer support system is predicted by pre-submission analysis of the attributes of the question itself before the answer is generated. Questions being entered into the question and answer based customer support system that are not likely to satisfy either an asking user submitting a question, or subsequent searching users accessing the resulting question and answer pair, are labeled improperly formatted questions, or low quality format questions. The question data representing improperly formatted questions is then either filtered out, avoided completely, or, proactively corrected by providing the user with a set of personalized question format transformation instructions to transform improperly formatted questions into a re-phrased/re-formatted properly formatted questions having a question format predicted to provide a significantly higher probability of user satisfaction with any answer eventually provided.
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31 Claims
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1. A method for pro-active detection and correction of low quality questions submitted to a question and answer based customer support system, the method comprising:
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providing a computing system implemented tax preparation software system to one or more users; providing users of the computing system implemented tax preparation software system a question and answer based customer support system through which question data can be entered by the users, the question data representing questions to potentially be provided to one or more support personnel associated with the question and answer based customer support system so that the questions represented by the question data can be answered by at least one of the one or more support personnel; defining low quality question formats that are predicted to result in answers that will have user satisfaction ratings below a threshold level of user satisfaction, wherein low quality question formats that are predicted to result in answers that will have user satisfaction ratings below a threshold level of user satisfaction include; “
Who”
question formats,“
What”
question formats,“
When”
question formats,“
Where”
question formats,“
Why”
question formats,“
How”
question formats,rhetorical question formats, grammatically incorrect question formats, and ill-formed question formats; defining questions having low quality question formats as improperly formatted questions; continuously receiving, through a user interface of the question and answer customer support system, a character at a time, question data representing a question in the process of being submitted by one of the one or more users while dynamically analyzing a format of the received question data as it is being submitted, and providing one or more transformation instructions through the user interface as single characters of the question are being received, the format transformation instructions providing guidance for transforming an improperly formatted question into a properly formatted question, the guidance for transforming an improperly formatted question being customized, prior to being provided, to the question being submitted through the user interface, the analysis including determining whether the question begins with an auxiliary verb and also determining whether a multiple choice answer is embedded in the question; and upon a determination being made, based on the analysis of the question data, that the question data represents an improperly formatted question, taking one or more corrective actions before providing the question data to the one or more support personnel. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method for pro-active detection and correction of low quality questions submitted to a question and answer based customer support system, the method for pro-active detection and correction of low quality questions submitted to a question and answer based customer support system comprising:
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providing a computing system implemented tax preparation software system to one or more users; providing users of the computing system implemented tax preparation software system a question and answer based customer support system through which question data can be entered by the users, the question data representing questions to potentially be provided to one or more support personnel associated with the question and answer based customer support system so that the questions represented by the question data can be answered by at least one of the one or more support personnel; defining high quality question formats that are predicted to result in answers that will have user satisfaction ratings above a threshold level of user satisfaction; defining low quality question formats that are predicted to result in answers that will have user satisfaction ratings below a threshold level of user satisfaction, wherein low quality question formats that are predicted to result in answers that will have user satisfaction ratings below a threshold level of user satisfaction include; “
Who”
question formats,“
What”
question formats,“
When”
question formats,“
Where”
question formats,“
Why”
question formats,“
How”
question formats,rhetorical question formats, grammatically incorrect question formats, and ill-formed question formats; defining questions having high quality question formats as properly formatted questions; defining questions having low quality question formats as improperly formatted questions; continuously receiving, through a user interface of the question and answer customer support system, a character at a time, question data representing a question in the process of being submitted by one of the one or more user while dynamically analyzing a format of the received question data as single characters of the question are being submitted, and providing one or more transformation instructions through the user interface while the question is being submitted, the format transformation instructions providing guidance for transforming an improperly formatted question into a properly formatted question, the guidance for transforming an improperly formatted question being customized, prior to being provided, to the question being submitted through the user interface, the analysis including determining whether the question begins with an auxiliary verb and also determining whether a multiple choice answer is embedded in the question; if, based on the analysis of the question data, a determination is made that the question data represents an improperly formatted question, taking one or more corrective actions before providing the question data to the one or more support personnel; and if, based on the analysis of the question data, a determination is made that the question data does not represent a improperly formatted question, providing the question data to the one or more support personnel. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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