Method and system for automated autonomous intent mining

An autonomous automated intent mining system extracts intents from stored conversations in a text-based chat corpus for use in an AI-driven dialog system. The intent mining system includes an intelligent pre-processor for extracting the conversation data from a computer memory and operating on the conversation data to identify relevant utterances. The system additionally includes a representation processor for operating on the identified relevant utterances to create a numerical representation. The system also includes a clustering processor for generating clusters of utterances and classifying each of the identified relevant utterances into a cluster based on the numerical representation of each utterance. Each generated cluster represents a unique intent for use in the AI-driven dialog system.