Wednesday 3 July 2024

Testing ChatGPT ability to formulate academic article titles based on the articles' abstracts: a note

I conduct three tests to evaluae ChatGPT's ability to formulate academic article titles based on the abstracts of three academic articles written by me.

Test 1:

The original article title is: 

An Exploration of the Problem of Plagiarism with theCognitive Mapping Technique

The article abstract is: 

Plagiarism is a hot topic in the education sector. Mainly focusing on the business education sector, the paper reviews the literature on plagiarism and exposes the soft complexity underlining the plagiarism problem. The complexity of the plagiarism theme is further depicted using the cognitive mapping technique, which can be considered as an attempt to enhance the multiperspective, systems-based cognitive filter in the multiperspective, systems-based research. Finally, the paper recommends the employment of systems thinking that endorses the employment of multiple perspectives and multiple methodologies in future research works on the topic of plagiarism.

 

The suggested article title from ChatGPT (GPT 3.5 Turbo) is:

"Understanding the Soft Complexity of Plagiarism in Business Education: A Multi-perspective Systems Approach"

 

My comment: the proposed title from ChatGPT reasonably captures the main theme of the article, though I still consider my own formulated title is clearer in this regard.

 

Test 2:

 

The original article title is:

On the Agile Literature Review Approach forPractising Managers: A Proposal

 

The article abstract is:

Literature review skill as covered in the subject of Research Methods is not only useful for doing dissertation projects in academic programme study but also valuable for informing practising managers to cope with actual workplace management issues and concerns. To make literature review easier for practising managers to carry out, the writer proposes the agile literature review approach (ALRA), primarily for applied business research and practices. The main ALRA aim is to promote a complicated understanding of a management topic and its associated management concern by the ALRA user. Although the agile approach is lightweight, its effective application requires endorsement of contemporary systems thinking; this thinking is theoretically profound, thus requiring long-term engaging intellectual learning to master.

 

The suggested article title from ChatGPT (GPT 3.5 Turbo) is:

"Enhancing Literature Review Skills for Applied Business Research: Introducing the Agile Literature Review Approach (ALRA)"


My comment: the proposed title from ChatGPT reasonably captures the main theme of the article, though I still consider my own formulated title is clearer in this regard.

 

 

Test 3:

The original article title is:

What can contemporary systems thinking offerto logistics management as a management discipline

 

The article abstract is:

The development of the management discipline of logistic has always been directed at promoting effective logistics practices and the evolving challenges of practising logisticians. A review of recent logistics literature shows that the logistics field is increasingly attentive to aspects of logistics management that are more social and behavioural. At the same time, some logisticians have expressed concerns on the current status of logistics management. Since similar concerns and topics can also be found in the field of systems thinking, high potential of cross-fertilization of ideas between these two disciplines appears to exist. Areas where contemporary systems thinking can offer opportunities to contemporary logistics management for further advancement are identified in this paper with a view to spur development in this direction.

 

The suggested article title from ChatGPT (GPT 3.5 Turbo) is:

"Exploring the Intersection of Logistics Management and Systems Thinking: Opportunities for Advancement in Contemporary Logistics Practices"


My comment: the proposed title from ChatGPT reasonably captures the main theme of the article, though I still consider my own formulated title is clearer in this regard.


Some overall comments: for the three tests, ChatGPT (GPT 3.5 Turbo) is unfailingly able to come up with three appropriate article titles based on the articles' abstracts for the three tests. The reason why the proposed article titles are not as good as mine in terms of theme capture accuracy could probably be due to the inadequate information provided in the article abstracts in the first place. In addition, the ability of ChatGPT (GPT 3.5 Turbo) to write elegantly, e.g. on article title formulation, has much room for improvement.

Lastly, this ChatGPT (GPT 3.5 Turbo) capability is not able to help students to produce a project title for their dissertation proposals; this is because there is no abstract for ChatGPT to process in order to generate a dissertation project title.



Reference: a collection of blog notes on using ChatGPT.


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