Remixing Headlines for Context-Appropriate Flavor Text

Abstract

We describe a prototype of Churnalist, a headline generator for creating contextually-appropriate fictional headlines that can be used as flavor text in games. Churnalist creates new headlines by remixing existing headlines. It extracts seed words from free text input, searches for related words in a dataset of word embeddings and uses these words in the new headlines. The system requires no linguistic expertise or hand-coded language models from the user.