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by tonylucas 3879 days ago
I think the chat logs will help, but it won't just be about that data.

The data around how users interact will also be important:

Do they prefer a back and forth conversation, or do they want to say everything in one go.

Do they want to start a conversation, drop it, come back to it several hours later, or do they like completing it in one go.

How do they handle switching back and forth between different contexts, if certain requests take time, or do users not switch context.

What data are they happy to share, and what are they not.

What are the typical response times that a user considers acceptable 5 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes, 60 minutes? Does it vary depending on scenario.

Is there particular services or information that there is a trend towards, for example local search requests, research/information, particular types of purchase etc.

We've just spent 6 months going through a very similar process to this, which has helped drive the development of our Converse platform, which allows people to build semi or fully automated conversational messaging services, so this is fairly closely related.

(From our point of view, the NLP data we gathered was useful, but it wasn't the most important part)