Interesting Idea

[Yiping Jin]

Hi,

Is there a state-of-the-art system that can take a research paper as input and generate presentation slides that are good enough to be used (people are willing to use it to present with minimum manual changes)?

This task is somehow related to the alignment task that some people in our group were working on. 

Of course it's easy to extract the section headers and some of the important sentences to stuff the slides. But a "good" system shall do at least the following tasks well:

1. summarize the ideas into bullet points

2. reproduce (and reorganize) the graphs and tables. Make sure the audience will not be overwhelmed by the amount of information.

3. able to combine sections based on topic or idea

4. able to insert slides that can help the audience to follow the flow (content, Q&A ...)

This appears simple idea but involves many techniques in NLP, DL and usability. Might be an interesting task to look into. 

-- Yiping

 

[Min-Yen Kan]

Hi Yiping:

No, there's nothing that good yet. There have been some research code
that can do some prototypes of this but nothing built into actual
production software.

Cheers,

Min

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[Muthukumar C]

It might be easier to generate title, outline slides. A summary of key points combining related paragraphs would be an interesting task to do.

Extracting and summarising tables, extracting formulas could be difficult to do. These two items would be essential to a ppt. I don't think the basic OCR is good enough to do that well.

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