Journal
KDD'19: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 25TH ACM SIGKDD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCCE ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING
Volume -, Issue -, Pages 3040-3050Publisher
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
DOI: 10.1145/3292500.3330725
Keywords
Product Description Generation; Controllable Text Generation; Personalization; Knowledge Base
Funding
- NSFC [61825602, 61836013]
- Alibaba
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Quality product descriptions are critical for providing competitive customer experience in an e-commerce platform. An accurate and attractive description not only helps customers make an informed decision but also improves the likelihood of purchase. However, crafting a successful product description is tedious and highly time-consuming. Due to its importance, automating the product description generation has attracted considerable interest from both research and industrial communities. Existing methods mainly use templates or statistical methods, and their performance could be rather limited. In this paper, we explore a new way to generate personalized product descriptions by combining the power of neural networks and knowledge base. Specifically, we propose a KnOwledge Based pErsonalized (or KOBE) product description generation model in the context of e-commerce. In KOBE, we extend the encoder-decoder framework, the Transformer, to a sequence modeling formulation using self-attention. In order to make the description both informative and personalized, KOBE considers a variety of important factors during text generation, including product aspects, user categories, and knowledge base. Experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the baseline on various metrics. 1 KOBE can achieve an improvement of 9.7% over state-of-the-arts in terms of BLEU. We also present several case studies as the anecdotal evidence to further prove the effectiveness of the proposed approach. The framework has been deployed in Taobao, 2 the largest online e-commerce platform in China.
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