Multi-lingual neural title generation for e-Commerce browse pages

Prashant Mathur, Nicola Ueffing, Gregor Leusch


Abstract
To provide better access of the inventory to buyers and better search engine optimization, e-Commerce websites are automatically generating millions of browse pages. A browse page consists of a set of slot name/value pairs within a given category, grouping multiple items which share some characteristics. These browse pages require a title describing the content of the page. Since the number of browse pages are huge, manual creation of these titles is infeasible. Previous statistical and neural approaches depend heavily on the availability of large amounts of data in a language. In this research, we apply sequence-to-sequence models to generate titles for high-resource as well as low-resource languages by leveraging transfer learning. We train these models on multi-lingual data, thereby creating one joint model which can generate titles in various different languages. Performance of the title generation system is evaluated on three different languages; English, German, and French, with a particular focus on low-resourced French language.
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N18-3020
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 3 (Industry Papers)
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June
Year:
2018
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New Orleans - Louisiana
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Srinivas Bangalore, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Yunyao Li
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
162–169
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https://aclanthology.org/N18-3020
DOI:
10.18653/v1/N18-3020
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Prashant Mathur, Nicola Ueffing, and Gregor Leusch. 2018. Multi-lingual neural title generation for e-Commerce browse pages. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 3 (Industry Papers), pages 162–169, New Orleans - Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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