Automatically augmenting titles of research papers for better discovery

Abstract

It is well known that the title of an article impacts how well it is discovered by potential readers and read. With both people and search engines, acting on behalf of people, accessing papers from digital libraries, it is important that the paper titles should promote discovery. In this paper, we investigate the characteristics of titles of AI papers and then propose automatic ways to augment them so that they can be better indexed and discovered by users. A user study with researchers shows that they overwhelmingly prefer the augmented titles over the originals for being more helpful.