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Killer Titles Using Entitlement: A tool for promoting discussion around the relationships between a research paper's content, citations, abstract and title
Dr Viccy Adams - Leverhulme Trust Writer in Residence at the School of Informatics, Edinburgh University
Clare Llewellyn - PhD Student, School of Informatics, Edinburgh University
Why is a title important?• Signpost
• Hook
• Name
How to Build an Automatic Title Generator?
• Investigate general title structure
• Investigate titles in the Computer Science domain
• Build a rule based text generator (or borrow one)
• Use a grading system to score title produced
Title Investigation3 main types of title:
Declarative"Adipose gene expression prior to wait loss can differentiate and weakly predict dietary response"
Descriptive / neutral"A worldwide phylogeography for the human X chromosome"
Interrogative"Is there rearrangement hotspots for the human genome?"
Most common type of title is descriptive
General Facts:
• Titles which are questions lead to more downloads but less citations of the papers
• Longer titles generally mean less downloads (slightly)• Titles with colons tend to be longer which leads to fewer
downloads and citations*o (but the number of words and the use of colons
increased 1981-2001)• The use of a colon and acronym lead to more citations• Including a country name means less citations• Humour means less citations, but more enjoyment -
because of a lower perception of credibility• Pleasantness means more citations• Google gives higher weighting to title words but not
keywords
Investigation: Computer ScienceBased on 10, 000 article titles in the Computer Science Category from arXiv.org
Statistical and part of speech analysis to this text
Average length of title = 8.91 words
Common Sentence StructureNoun Phrase Verb Noun PhraseNoun Phrase Preposition NounDeterminer Noun Preposition Noun PhraseVerb Noun Phrase Preposition Noun PhraseAdjective Noun Preposition Noun Phrase
Common NounsImage, evaluation, study, time, search, logic, network, design, method, algorithm
Common AdjectivesParallel, intelligent, global, large, polynomial, new, complex, local, distributed
Common Punctuation
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