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Optimizing customer engagement in insurance through NLP-driven sentiment and RL


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Kodadi, Sharadha and Dondapati, Koteswara Rao and Chetlapalli, Himabindu and Allur, Naga Sushma and Deevi, Durga Praveen and Perumal, Thinagaran (2025) Optimizing customer engagement in insurance through NLP-driven sentiment and RL. SN Computer Science, 6 (8). art. no. 1005. pp. 1-18. ISSN 2662-995X; eISSN: 2661-8907

Abstract

The process of customer engagement for an insurance company faces several issues because real-time decision-making informed by sentiment analysis is essential to enhancing customer satisfaction and retention. Most conventional approaches fail in their intention to deliver a dynamic, personalized solution. In this respect, to enhance customer engagement, this article integrates Reinforcement Learning with NLP sentiment analysis. It aims at the use of advanced AI techniques to dynamically alter tactics according to the input received from customers so that the engagement, satisfaction, and retention of customers in the insurance sector may be improved. This would be done by developing an integrated framework combining sentiment analysis with RL. On one hand, to better inform decision-making, use a combination of reinforcement learning techniques and NLP, a technique for analyzing sentiments from customer input; and use RL to adapt policy during real-time feedback data to sentiment. It will hence guarantee personalized, flexible communication about the product to the respective customers. NLP and RL integration led to a simulated 93% efficiency gain in customer satisfaction over conventional AI and SEO baseline methods, using results from a synthetic dataset. The system demonstrated an increase in efficiency for automating (92%), retention (90%), and also in customer satisfaction (91%), and thus emphasised that combining sentiment analysis with reinforcement learning provides real-time emotional feedback upon which engagement actions and ultimate customer experience improvements are based Liu et al. (Recurrent neural network for text classification with multi-task learning. arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.05101, 2016) The result validates the feasibility of implementing the proposed framework to the maximum benefit in terms of client engagement with the product in the insurance sector. NLP and RL integrate to improve how insurers interact with customers on the consumer’s emotions to deliver highly personalized solutions and, subsequently, achieve client satisfaction and loyalty through increased retention in competitive SME markets.


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Item Type: Article
Subject: Computer Science (all)
Subject: Computer Science Applications
Subject: Computer Networks and Communications
Divisions: Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-025-04567-0
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: AI; Customer engagement; Customer satisfaction; Insurance; Natural language processing (NLP); Optimization; Reinforcement learning (RL); Retention; Sentiment analysis; SMEs
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities
Depositing User: MS. HADIZAH NORDIN
Date Deposited: 24 Jun 2026 05:32
Last Modified: 24 Jun 2026 05:32
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/124135
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