"Let me convince you to buy my product ... ": A Case Study of an Automated Persuasive System for Fashion Products
This work addresses the need for automated persuasive systems in marketing, specifically for fashion products, but it appears incremental as it adapts existing linguistic techniques to a new domain.
The researchers tackled the problem of generating persuasive sentences for fashion products by developing PersuAIDE!, a system that uses linguistic creativity to transform input sentences into various persuasive forms focusing on memorability and sentiment. The effectiveness was manually verified with qualitative results and empirically discussed.
Persuasivenes is a creative art aimed at making people believe in certain set of beliefs. Many a times, such creativity is about adapting richness of one domain into another to strike a chord with the target audience. In this research, we present PersuAIDE! - A persuasive system based on linguistic creativity to transform given sentence to generate various forms of persuading sentences. These various forms cover multiple focus of persuasion such as memorability and sentiment. For a given simple product line, the algorithm is composed of several steps including: (i) select an appropriate well-known expression for the target domain to add memorability, (ii) identify keywords and entities in the given sentence and expression and transform it to produce creative persuading sentence, and (iii) adding positive or negative sentiment for further persuasion. The persuasive conversion were manually verified using qualitative results and the effectiveness of the proposed approach is empirically discussed.