Abstract
Contact centers (CC) are an important business for Europe: 35,000 contact centers generate 3.2 Million jobs (~1% of Europe’s active population). A typical CC produces a wealth of multilingual spoken data that is nowadays mined by humans (CC agents and supervisors) or by rudimentary technical means. BISON consortium plans to bring significant innovations in three areas: (1) basic speech data mining technologies (systems quickly adaptable to new languages, domains and CC campaigns), (2) business outcome mining from speech (translated into improvement of CCs’ Key Performance Indicators) and (3) CC support systems integrating both speech and business outcome mining in user-friendly way. The project will produce two prototypes: smallBison (end of the 1st year) will be a functioning system for real, though limited, deployment and user feedback collection. bigBison (end of the project) will include full range of capabilities and be fully integrated with CC hardware and software infrastructure. Generation of business outputs will be demonstrated on real data. Business indicators and values for the market were instrumental for the definition of the project and will be crucial for project execution. BISON consortium is composed of eight players with complementary skills. Two end users running large CC operations (EBOS, Atento) are generating user requirements and are ready to deploy the prototypes immediately in real scenarios. Phonexia (the coordinator), Brno University of Technology and Telefónica I+D are experts in speech data mining - from R&D;, data processing to developing products placed on the market. Telefónica Móviles is an expert in business outcome mining and MyForce is a skilled Contact Center hardware and software integrator. CC data involve a number of legal issues, therefore, the University of Bologna (with significant experience in regulatory and legal aspects) complements the consortium.
Project details
Unibo Team Leader: Enrico Denti
Unibo involved Department/s:
Dipartimento di Informatica - Scienza e Ingegneria
Coordinator:
Phonexia Sro(Czech Republic)
Other Participants:
Atento Ceska Republika a.s.
(Czech Republic)
MyForce
(Belgium)
Vysoke Uceni Technicke V Brne-Technical University Of Brno
(Czech Republic)
Ebos Luxembourg S.A.
(Luxembourg)
Telefonica Moviles Espana S.A.
(Spain)
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna
(Italy)
Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo S.A. Unipersonal
(Spain)
Total Eu Contribution: Euro (EUR) 3.090.824,50
Project Duration in months: 36
Start Date:
01/01/2015
End Date:
31/12/2017
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 645323