KULCQ: An Unsupervised Keyword-based Utterance Level Clustering Quality Metric

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09853v1
• Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:21:02 GMT
• Title: KULCQ: An Unsupervised Keyword-based Utterance Level Clustering Quality Metric
• Authors: Pranav Guruprasad, Negar Mokhberian, Nikhil Varghese, Chandra Khatri, Amol Kelkar,
• Abstract summary: Keywords-based Utterance Level Clustering Quality (KULCQ) is an unsupervised metric that leverages keyword analysis to evaluate clustering quality. Our results show that KULCQ better captures semantic relationships in conversational data while maintaining consistency with geometric clustering principles.
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• Abstract: Intent discovery is crucial for both building new conversational agents and improving existing ones. While several approaches have been proposed for intent discovery, most rely on clustering to group similar utterances together. Traditional evaluation of these utterance clusters requires intent labels for each utterance, limiting scalability. Although some clustering quality metrics exist that do not require labeled data, they focus solely on cluster geometry while ignoring the linguistic nuances present in conversational transcripts. In this paper, we introduce Keyword-based Utterance Level Clustering Quality (KULCQ), an unsupervised metric that leverages keyword analysis to evaluate clustering quality. We demonstrate KULCQ's effectiveness by comparing it with existing unsupervised clustering metrics and validate its performance through comprehensive ablation studies. Our results show that KULCQ better captures semantic relationships in conversational data while maintaining consistency with geometric clustering principles.

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