Sentiment

Sentiment identifies a response to an Open Question as generally positive, negative, or neutral. Sentiment can be used in dialog Condition rules as a post condition to determine an action to take as a result of the response. For example, a negative response might be followed up with a question like, "I'm sorry to hear that. Please tell us more".

Enabling sentiment for the instance

To turn on sentiment for an instance, add the label enableIntentions = true in the Custom Settings list of Account Management.

Add 'enableIntentions' with a value of 'true' to the Custom Settings tab

Enabling sentiment on a dialog

Sentiment analysis can be performed on an Open Question dialog response by adding labels to the dialog

  1. To turn on sentiment analysis for a dialog, adding this Label: enable_sentiment

  2. Specify the spoken language of the response with sentiment_language. For a complete list of supported languages, see Text Analytics supported languages. The default language is English when this label is omitted.

Both labels, one is sentiment_language=DUTCH

Creating a condition rule based on sentiment

For detailed information about rules and how to create them, see Condition rules. These steps highlight how to create a rule based on sentiment.

  • When defining the rule condition, choose Sentiment from the Field selector when creating the rule condition.

    Sentiment is an option in the Select a field list

  • Choose the sentiment for the rule (positive, negative or neutral/unclear).

    Sentiment options: positive, negative, and neutral/unclear

  • Consider creating a rule for each sentiment option.

    Three rules, one for each sentiment option

Sentiment classes

Sentiment analysis is performed by Action Intelligence powered by Medallia AI. Action Intelligence identifies several possible responses, however, Medallia Conversations recognizes only three, and the other options map to one of the three as follows:

Action Intelligence sentimentMedallia Conversations sentiment
Strongly positivePositive
PositivePositive
NegativeNegative
Strongly negativeNegative
Mixed opinionNeutral
Unclear Neutral