Multi-Modal Generative Adversarial Network for Short Product Title Generation in Mobile E-Commerce

Jianguo Zhang, Pengcheng Zou, Zhao Li, Yao Wan, Xiuming Pan, Yu Gong, Philip S. Yu


Abstract
Nowadays, more and more customers browse and purchase products in favor of using mobile E-Commerce Apps such as Taobao and Amazon. Since merchants are usually inclined to describe redundant and over-informative product titles to attract attentions from customers, it is important to concisely display short product titles on limited screen of mobile phones. To address this discrepancy, previous studies mainly consider textual information of long product titles and lacks of human-like view during training and evaluation process. In this paper, we propose a Multi-Modal Generative Adversarial Network (MM-GAN) for short product title generation in E-Commerce, which innovatively incorporates image information and attribute tags from product, as well as textual information from original long titles. MM-GAN poses short title generation as a reinforcement learning process, where the generated titles are evaluated by the discriminator in a human-like view. Extensive experiments on a large-scale E-Commerce dataset demonstrate that our algorithm outperforms other state-of-the-art methods. Moreover, we deploy our model into a real-world online E-Commerce environment and effectively boost the performance of click through rate and click conversion rate by 1.66% and 1.87%, respectively.
Anthology ID:
N19-2009
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Industry Papers)
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June
Year:
2019
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Anastassia Loukina, Michelle Morales, Rohit Kumar
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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64–72
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https://aclanthology.org/N19-2009
DOI:
10.18653/v1/N19-2009
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Jianguo Zhang, Pengcheng Zou, Zhao Li, Yao Wan, Xiuming Pan, Yu Gong, and Philip S. Yu. 2019. Multi-Modal Generative Adversarial Network for Short Product Title Generation in Mobile E-Commerce. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Industry Papers), pages 64–72, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Multi-Modal Generative Adversarial Network for Short Product Title Generation in Mobile E-Commerce (Zhang et al., NAACL 2019)
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