Attractive or Faithful? Inspired Subject Generation

Abstract

With the rapid proliferation of online media sources and published news, headlines have become increasingly important for attracting readers to news articles, since users may be overwhelmed with the massive information. In this talk, we present two works that generate : 1) inspired headlines that preserve the nature of news articles and catch the eye of the reader simultaneously and 2) personalized subject for boosting the Click-Through-Rate (CTR) of Electronic Direct Mail (EDM). Specifically, the task of inspired headline generation can be viewed as a specific form of Headline Generation (HG) task, with the emphasis on creating an attractive headline from a given news article. To generate inspired headlines, we propose a novel framework that exploits the extractive-abstractive architecture with 1) Popular Topic Attention (PTA) for guiding the extractor to select the attractive sentence from the article and 2) a popularity predictor for guiding the abstractor to rewrite the attractive sentence. Moreover, since the sentence selection of the extractor is not differentiable, techniques of reinforcement learning (RL) are utilized to bridge the gap with rewards obtained from a popularity score predictor. On the other hand, for personalized subject generation, we propose a new framework that elegantly integrates text summarization and collaborative filtering. We'll show the experimental results and case studies in this talk.