[CS] Chenghao Yang MS PresentationMay 23, 2025

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This is an announcement of Chenghao Yang's MS Presentation
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Candidate: Chenghao Yang

Date: Friday, May 23, 2025

Time:  2 pm CST

Location: JCL 298

Title: Grounded Persuasive Language Generation for Automated Marketing 

Abstract: We develop an agentic framework that employs large language models (LLMs) to automate the generation of persuasive and grounded marketing content, using real estate listing descriptions as our focal application domain. Our method is designed to align the generated content with user preferences while highlighting useful factual attributes. This agent consists of three key modules: (1) Grounding Module, mimicking expert human behavior to predict marketable features; (2) Personalization Module, aligning content with user preferences; (3) Marketing Module, ensuring factual accuracy and the inclusion of localized features. We conduct systematic human-subject experiments in the domain of real estate marketing, with a focus group of potential house buyers. The results demonstrate that marketing descriptions generated by our approach are preferred over those written by human experts by a clear margin. Our findings suggest a promising LLM-based agentic framework to automate large-scale targeted marketing while ensuring responsible generation using only facts.

Advisors: Ari Holtzman

Committee: Ari Holtzman, Mina Lee, Haifeng Xu