A method for configuring a topic-specific chatbot comprising: clustering a plurality of transcripts of interactions between customers and agents of a contact center of an enterprise to generate a plurality of clusters of interactions, each cluster of interactions corresponding to a topic, each of the interactions including agent phrases and customer phrases; for each cluster of the plurality of clusters of interactions: extracting a topic-specific dialogue tree for the cluster; pruning the topic-specific dialogue tree to generate a deterministic dialogue tree; and configuring a topic-specific chatbot in accordance with the deterministic dialogue tree; and outputting the one or more topic-specific chatbots, each of the topic-specific chatbots being configured to generate, automatically, responses to messages regarding the topic of the topic-specific chatbot from a customer in an interaction between the customer and the enterprise.