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- Title
Predicting Success of Outbound Telemarketing in Insurance Policy Loans Using an Explainable Multiple-Filter Convolutional Neural Network.
- Authors
Gu, Jinmo; Na, Jinhyuk; Park, Jeongeun; Kim, Hayoung
- Abstract
Outbound telemarketing is an efficient direct marketing method wherein telemarketers solicit potential customers by phone to purchase or subscribe to products or services. However, those who are not interested in the information or offers provided by outbound telemarketing generally experience such interactions negatively because they perceive telemarketing as spam. In this study, therefore, we investigate the use of deep learning models to predict the success of outbound telemarketing for insurance policy loans. We propose an explainable multiple-filter convolutional neural network model called XmCNN that can alleviate overfitting and extract various high-level features using hundreds of input variables. To enable the practical application of the proposed method, we also examine ensemble models to further improve its performance. We experimentally demonstrate that the proposed XmCNN significantly outperformed conventional deep neural network models and machine learning models. Furthermore, a deep learning ensemble model constructed using the XmCNN architecture achieved the lowest false positive rate (4.92%) and the highest F1-score (87.47%). We identified important variables influencing insurance policy loan prediction through the proposed model, suggesting that these factors should be considered in practice. The proposed method may increase the efficiency of outbound telemarketing and reduce the spam problems caused by calling non-potential customers.
- Subjects
CONVOLUTIONAL neural networks; CREDIT insurance; INSURANCE policies; ARTIFICIAL neural networks; SPAM email; TELEMARKETING; DEEP learning
- Publication
Applied Sciences (2076-3417), 2021, Vol 11, Issue 15, p7147
- ISSN
2076-3417
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/app11157147