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PSED: A Dataset for Selecting Emphasis in Presentation Slides

ACL 2021 Findings

Publication date: August 4, 2021

Amirreza Shirani, Giai Tran, Hieu Trinh, Franck Dernoncourt, Nedim Lipka, Jose Echevarria, Thamar Solorio, Paul Asente

Emphasizing words in presentation slides allows viewers to direct their gaze to focal points without reading the entire slide, retaining their attention on the speaker. Despite many studies on automatic slide generation, few have addressed helping authors choose which words to emphasize. Motivated by this, we study the problem of choosing candidates for emphasis by introducing a new dataset containing presentation slides with a wide variety of topics. We evaluated a range of state-of-the-art models on this novel dataset by organizing a shared task and inviting multiple researchers to model emphasis in slides.