Alyona Medelyan PhD

Alyona has a PhD in NLP and Machine Learning. Her peer-reviewed articles have been cited by over 2600 academics. Her love of writing comes from years of PhD research.

How to Improve Customer Service with Unstructured Data Members Public

Last month, I had the pleasure to speak with Jeff Toister (CPLP, Author of “The Service Culture Handbook”) on his webinar on how to improve customer service with unstructured data. Contact centers often miss out on many opportunities on how to improve their team’s performance and deliver critical insights

Alyona Medelyan PhD
Alyona Medelyan PhD
Mining customer feedback to uncover gold nuggets of actionable insights

How to get meaningful, actionable insights from customer feedback Members Public

Many companies collect vast amounts of raw customer data, but don’t know how best to use it! Here's how to turn your feedback into actionable insights.

Alyona Medelyan PhD
Alyona Medelyan PhD
AI & Tech

3 ways to close the customer feedback loop to prevent churn and increase revenue Members Public

What is the customer feedback loop? The customer feedback loop is the practice of responding to customers when they leave feedback. How to do this follow up meaningfully? For example, let's say a customer complains about being overcharged. To close the loop with this customer the company may respond with

Alyona Medelyan PhD
Alyona Medelyan PhD
Churn & Loyalty

Does it matter which customer experience metric you choose? Members Public

Are you responsible for measuring the progress in improving customer experience? If yes, I’m sure you needed to come up with a rationale on which metrics to choose for this: Is it an all ubiquitous Net Promoter Score (NPS), the traditional customer satisfaction CSAT, or a more recent invention

Alyona Medelyan PhD
Alyona Medelyan PhD
Customer Experience

Thematic Analysis for Feedback: The Secret Weapon Most Companies Miss (Part 5/5) Members Public

Discover Thematic Analysis, the ONLY text analysis approach that's accurate, fast, and transparent. Learn how it outperforms other methods and uncovers hidden insights in your feedback.

Alyona Medelyan PhD
Alyona Medelyan PhD
Text Analytics

How to make the most out of YC Startup School Members Public

Last year, in 2017, my co-founder signed us up for the YCombinator’s Startup School (SUS). 10 weeks later, our lives had changed completely. We were admitted into the YC’s core program, moved to Silicon Valley and were growing faster than we could onboard customers. This year, YCombinator launched

Alyona Medelyan PhD
Alyona Medelyan PhD

Topic Modeling for Text Analysis: The Hype vs. Reality (Part 4/5) Members Public

This is the 4th article in my series of Text Analytics posts explaining popular approaches to feedback analysis. Last week, we talked about text categorization, a Machine Learning approach that requires training data. We concluded that it can’t detect emerging themes in people’s feedback and that it’s

Alyona Medelyan PhD
Alyona Medelyan PhD
Feedback Analysis

Text Categorization Demystified: Does It Really Deliver on Advanced Analytics? (Part 3/5) Members Public

Explore text categorization for analyzing feedback: its machine learning power, the crucial role of training data, and the four key challenges it faces in real-world applications.

Alyona Medelyan PhD
Alyona Medelyan PhD
Text Analytics

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