Title: A method for generating presentation slides based on expression styles using document structure

Authors: Yuanyuan Wang; Kazutoshi Sumiya

Addresses: Graduate School of Human Science and Environment, University of Hyogo, Shinzaike-honcho 1-1-12, Himeji, Hyogo 670-0092, Japan ' Graduate School of Human Science and Environment, University of Hyogo, Shinzaike-honcho 1-1-12, Himeji, Hyogo 670-0092, Japan

Abstract: A communication environment in which people use presentation slides to exchange and discuss ideas can be created. Presenters, however, must clearly communicate content for audience understanding. Although most slides generated by conventional methods follow structured document summaries (e.g. academic papers), our method has been designed to generate outlines for lecture slides from textbook chapters. We aimed to organise slide layouts from target chapters based on the expression styles of referred slides. Therefore, we analysed level positions of words in the referred slides and arranged words from target chapters to generate slide outlines based on difference in document structure (i.e. text structure, slide structure). To achieve this, we extracted differences between tendency of word appearance in chapters and their slides. This method generated slide outlines by using the expression styles of the corresponding words from the target chapters. In this paper, we have also included an evaluation of our method's effectiveness.

Keywords: presentation slides; outline generation; slide making support; expression styles; textbook chapters; document structure; text structure; slide structure; word appearances tendency; slide layout; lecture slides; lectures.

DOI: 10.1504/IJKWI.2013.052728

International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence, 2013 Vol.4 No.1, pp.93 - 112

Published online: 18 Mar 2013 *

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