Communications Mining™ overview

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a field of Machine Learning focused on building tools that can automatically understand and process natural language data similarly to the way humans can.

A key focus of NLP tools is taking unstructured communications data and turning it into actionable structured data, by understanding the intents, themes and concepts within, and extracting key data points.

From support, to sales, to finance and services. Communicating with each other is how business gets done.

The number of emails, tickets, and messages is rising every year, and this is bringing services to a breaking point. It's increasing the cost to serve, and damaging employee and customer experiences.

Thankfully, Natural Language Processing, a branch of AI that focuses on helping machines read and understand human language, has seen massive advances in recent years.

Natural Language Processing, or NLP, has come of age, and it’s now beating humans in language understanding and reading comprehension.

This generates new solutions and opportunities for the enterprise.

With NLP, it's now possible to understand communications at scale.

This enables businesses to:

Communications Mining™, or Comms Mining, is a field that focuses on understanding and extracting value from communications data.

It’s the practice of converting the unstructured information this data contains into structured, machine-readable data that can then be used for analytics and automation.

Importantly, UiPath® Communications Mining™ not only identifies the pain points, but can also help resolve many of them through enabling more intelligent automations.

UiPath® Communications Mining™, formerly Re:infer, automates the interpretation of communications, helping businesses understand and automate messages – at speed, at scale, on any channel.

Our solution combines machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP), and employee-led supervised learning in a powerful, no-code solution that anyone can use.

It provides complete visibility into channels like emails, tickets and customer feedback, helping businesses better understand their customers, and where improvements will have the biggest impact.

It also enables intelligent automation from communications, as it generates the structured data required by downstream automations to action requests without human intervention.

Our Communications Mining™ solution:

Here's an overview of the typical journey that your data goes on within the platform:

Connect

First, we connect to your channels of unstructured communications data.

These could be shared email inboxes, workflow tickets, or collections of survey responses, to list just a few examples.

Getting this data into the platform can be done via:

Discover

With data uploaded, the platform automatically kickstarts the discovery process.

It uses unsupervised learning to cluster together groups of communications that share similar themes and concepts.

These clusters can link to repetitive processes, requests, issues, and sentiments. They can both help us to define the right structure for our model and speed up the first stage of model training.

By reviewing these clusters and applying labels and fields that capture relevant concepts and data points, the platform quickly starts to build a picture of what’s in the data.

Train

Next, we use a variety of training modes to build out the training data for our model.

Here, we’re teaching the platform to confidently identify these labels and fields, across the breadth of our data.

These training modes are designed to maximise the impact of training actions, and minimise the time spent training. Meanwhile, the platform’s zero-code interface means that a Model Trainer can be any business user working in the communication channel. No data scientists or engineers required.

With every training action, the platform continuously retrains, improving its understanding of each concept and data point and updating its predictions in real-time.

By annotating a small, representative sample of training data, the platform is able to apply its understanding of each label and general field at scale, automatically interpreting and making predictions across the entire dataset.

Predict

The end result? Structured label and general fields predictions, each with their own confidence scores, for every communication, just like this example email here:

These predictions are made available for analytics in the platform or via the API for consumption by UiPath® bots and other tools for automation or further analysis.

Validate

But before we rely on these predictions to influence decisions or enable action, we need to know how our model is performing.

The platform’s validation functionality provides full transparency when it comes to performance, validating your model automatically each time it retrains.

We can easily understand if our model is performing as it should across key performance factors that are aggregated into a single model rating for simplicity.

The platform also guides Model Trainers to make improvements as needed with recommended next-best actions.

Analyze

Once we’re happy with our model’s performance, we can very quickly generate valuable and actionable insights from these business conversations.

The platform aggregates all of the predictions for labels and fields with key metadata to provide a wealth of queryable data, providing visibility into previously hidden processes and channels.

This allows users to:

Just to name a few examples.

Alongside analytics, we can deploy trained models to enable production automations.

UiPath® robots and downstream systems can utilise the structured data created by UiPath® Communications Mining™ to extend automation into service and conversation-based processes. This allows businesses to automate transactional requests and workflows.

Tasks like triaging emails, updating customer information, and case creation can now be automated end-to-end by UiPath®.

Leading enterprises trust Communications Mining™ to analyze and automate their communications - and here are some of the reasons why:

Our solution opens up the power of AI and NLP to all business users, not just data scientists and engineers.

UiPath® Communications Mining™ provides enterprises with full operational visibility, letting you understand and augment your business like never before.

It helps your business to: