Presentations by the Humans and For the Humans: Harnessing LLMs for Generating Persona-Aware Slides from Documents

Ishani Mondal, Shwetha S, Anandhavelu Natarajan, Aparna Garimella, Sambaran Bandyopadhyay, Jordan Boyd-Graber


Abstract
Scientific papers and slides are two different representations of the same underlying information, but both require substantial work to prepare. While there had been prior efforts on automating document-to-slides generation, there is still a pressing need of customizing the presentation of content aligning with the persona of target audience or duration of presentation. This paper first introduces the concept of end-user specification-aware document to slides conversion that incorporates end-user specifications into the conversion process. For this, we initially introduce a new dataset reuse the existing SciDuet dataset consisting of pairs of papers and corresponding slides decks from recent years’ *ACL conferences to create four persona-aware configurations. Secondly, we present Persona-Aware-D2S, a novel approach by finetuning LLMs using target audience feedback to create persona-aware slides from scientific documents. Our evaluation on both automated metrics and qualitative human evaluation suggests that by incorporating end-user specifications into the conversion process, our model can create presentations that are not only informative but also tailored to expectations and cognitive abilities of target audience.
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2024.eacl-long.163
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Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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March
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2024
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St. Julian’s, Malta
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Yvette Graham, Matthew Purver
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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2664–2684
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Ishani Mondal, Shwetha S, Anandhavelu Natarajan, Aparna Garimella, Sambaran Bandyopadhyay, and Jordan Boyd-Graber. 2024. Presentations by the Humans and For the Humans: Harnessing LLMs for Generating Persona-Aware Slides from Documents. In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 2664–2684, St. Julian’s, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Presentations by the Humans and For the Humans: Harnessing LLMs for Generating Persona-Aware Slides from Documents (Mondal et al., EACL 2024)
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