@inproceedings{zheng-etal-2025-pptagent,
    title = "{PPTA}gent: Generating and Evaluating Presentations Beyond Text-to-Slides",
    author = "Zheng, Hao  and
      Guan, Xinyan  and
      Kong, Hao  and
      Zhang, Wenkai  and
      Zheng, Jia  and
      Zhou, Weixiang  and
      Lin, Hongyu  and
      Lu, Yaojie  and
      Han, Xianpei  and
      Sun, Le",
    editor = "Christodoulopoulos, Christos  and
      Chakraborty, Tanmoy  and
      Rose, Carolyn  and
      Peng, Violet",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = nov,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Suzhou, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.emnlp-main.728/",
    pages = "14413--14429",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-332-6",
    abstract = "Automatically generating presentations from documents is a challenging task that requires accommodating content quality, visual appeal, and structural coherence. Existing methods primarily focus on improving and evaluating the content quality in isolation, overlooking visual appeal and structural coherence, which limits their practical applicability. To address these limitations, we propose PPTAgent, which comprehensively improves presentation generation through a two-stage, edit-based approach inspired by human workflows. PPTAgent first analyzes reference presentations to extract slide-level functional types and content schemas, then drafts an outline and iteratively generates editing actions based on selected reference slides to create new slides. To comprehensively evaluate the quality of generated presentations, we further introduce PPTEval, an evaluation framework that assesses presentations across three dimensions: Content, Design, and Coherence. Results demonstrate that PPTAgent significantly outperforms existing automatic presentation generation methods across all three dimensions."
}