MediaHG: Rethinking Eye-catchy Features in Social Media Headline Generation

Boning Zhang, Yang Yang


Abstract
An attractive blog headline on social media platforms can immediately grab readers and trigger more clicks. However, a good headline shall not only contract the main content but also be eye-catchy with domain platform features, which are decided by the website’s users and objectives. With effective headlines, bloggers can obtain more site traffic and profits, while readers can have easier access to topics of interest. In this paper, we propose a disentanglement-based headline generation model: MediaHG (Social Media Headline Generation), which can balance the content and contextual features. Specifically, we first devise a sample module for various document views and generate the corresponding headline candidates. Then, we incorporate contrastive learning and auxiliary multi-task to choose the best domain-suitable headline, according to the disentangled budgets. Besides, our separated processing gains more flexible adaptation for other headline generation tasks with special domain features. Our model is built from the content and headlines of 70k hot posts collected from REDBook, a Chinese social media platform for daily sharing. Experimental results with language metrics ROUGE and human evaluation show the improvement in the headline generation task for the platform.
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2023.emnlp-main.352
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Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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December
Year:
2023
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Singapore
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Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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5766–5777
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.352
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.352
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Boning Zhang and Yang Yang. 2023. MediaHG: Rethinking Eye-catchy Features in Social Media Headline Generation. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 5766–5777, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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