Nishant Prabhu


2018

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When science journalism meets artificial intelligence : An interactive demonstration
Raghuram Vadapalli | Bakhtiyar Syed | Nishant Prabhu | Balaji Vasan Srinivasan | Vasudeva Varma
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations

We present an online interactive tool that generates titles of blog titles and thus take the first step toward automating science journalism. Science journalism aims to transform jargon-laden scientific articles into a form that the common reader can comprehend while ensuring that the underlying meaning of the article is retained. In this work, we present a tool, which, given the title and abstract of a research paper will generate a blog title by mimicking a human science journalist. The tool makes use of a model trained on a corpus of 87,328 pairs of research papers and their corresponding blogs, built from two science news aggregators. The architecture of the model is a two-stage mechanism which generates blog titles. Evaluation using standard metrics indicate the viability of the proposed system.