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Peinan Zhang

12 accepted papers

2025

AdParaphrase v2.0: Generating Attractive Ad Texts Using a Preference-Annotated Paraphrase Dataset

ACL 2025finding

Identifying factors that make ad text attractive is essential for advertising success. This study proposes AdParaphrase v2.0, a dataset for ad text paraphrasing, containing human preference data, to enable the analysis of the linguistic factors and to support the development of methods for generatin…

2025

AdParaphrase: Paraphrase Dataset for Analyzing Linguistic Features toward Generating Attractive Ad Texts

NAACL 2025findings

Effective linguistic choices that attract potential customers play crucial roles in advertising success. This study aims to explore the linguistic features of ad texts that influence human preferences. Although the creation of attractive ad texts is an active area of research, progress in understand…

2025

AdTEC: A Unified Benchmark for Evaluating Text Quality in Search Engine Advertising

NAACL 2025long

As the fluency of ad texts automatically generated by natural language generation technologies continues to improve, there is an increasing demand to assess the quality of these creatives in real-world setting.We propose **AdTEC**, the first public benchmark to evaluate ad texts from multiple perspe…

2025

BannerBench: Benchmarking Vision Language Models for Multi-Ad Selection with Human Preferences

EMNLP 2025

Web banner advertisements, which are placed on websites to guide users to a targeted landing page (LP), are still often selected manually because human preferences are important in selecting which ads to deliver. To automate this process, we propose a new benchmark, BannerBench, to evaluate the huma

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

CAMERA³: An Evaluation Dataset for Controllable Ad Text Generation in Japanese

COLING 2024main

Ad text generation is the task of creating compelling text from an advertising asset that describes products or services, such as a landing page. In advertising, diversity plays an important role in enhancing the effectiveness of an ad text, mitigating a phenomenon called “ad fatigue,” where users b…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

Cross-lingual Transfer or Machine Translation? On Data Augmentation for Monolingual Semantic Textual Similarity

COLING 2024main

Learning better sentence embeddings leads to improved performance for natural language understanding tasks including semantic textual similarity (STS) and natural language inference (NLI). As prior studies leverage large-scale labeled NLI datasets for fine-tuning masked language models to yield sent…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

Generating Diverse and High-Quality Texts by Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding

ACL 2024findings

One of the most important challenges in text generation systems is to produce outputs that are not only correct but also diverse.Recently, Minimum Bayes-Risk (MBR) decoding has gained prominence for generating sentences of the highest quality among the decoding algorithms. However, existing algorith…

2024

Striking Gold in Advertising: Standardization and Exploration of Ad Text Generation

ACL 2024long

In response to the limitations of manual ad creation, significant research has been conducted in the field of automatic ad text generation (ATG). However, the lack of comprehensive benchmarks and well-defined problem sets has made comparing different methods challenging. To tackle these challenges,…

2022

Aspect-based Analysis of Advertising Appeals for Search Engine Advertising

NAACL 2022industry

Writing an ad text that attracts people and persuades them to click or act is essential for the success of search engine advertising. Therefore, ad creators must consider various aspects of advertising appeals (A3) such as the price, product features, and quality. However, products and services exhi…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2021

An Empirical Study of Generating Texts for Search Engine Advertising

NAACL 2021industry

Although there are many studies on neural language generation (NLG), few trials are put into the real world, especially in the advertising domain. Generating ads with NLG models can help copywriters in their creation. However, few studies have adequately evaluated the effect of generated ads with ac…

2021

FAST: Fast Annotation tool for SmarT devices

EMNLP 2021system demonstrations

Working with a wide range of annotators with the same attributes is crucial, as in real-world applications. Although such application cases often use crowd-sourcing mechanisms to gather a variety of annotators, most real-world users use mobile devices. In this paper, we propose “FAST,” an annotation…