News Article Teaser Tweets and How to Generate Them

07/30/2018
by   Sanjeev Kumar Karn, et al.
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We define the task of teaser generation and provide an evaluation benchmark and baseline systems for it. A teaser is a short reading suggestion for an article that is illustrative and includes curiosity-arousing elements to entice potential readers to read the news item. Teasers are one of the main vehicles for transmitting news to social media users. We compile a novel dataset of teasers by systematically accumulating tweets and selecting ones that conform to the teaser definition. We compare a number of neural abstractive architectures on the task of teaser generation and the overall best performing system is See et al.(2017)'s seq2seq with pointer network.

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