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Content Analysis and Generation

Park, Eunkyung

UNSWorks (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia), 2026

Abstract

This thesis tackles the connected challenges of content analysis and content generation through the development of explainable models for complex datasets. Current approaches often miss hidden information and fail to capture causal progression, limiting their ability to produce coherent, meaningful content. For image generation, creating effective prompts remain another bottleneck, which this work addresses using Large Language Models (LLMs) for prompt optimisation. These tasks are chosen because, together, they confront the core problem of bridging deep content understanding with the generation of high quality, explainable outputs. Accordingly, this thesis focuses on three main tasks: (i) Developing content models for identifying engaging features using Significant Feature Lasso (SFLASSO), (ii) Proposing content models for generating coherent story endings, and (iii) Designing a prompting approach for generating social media images. To support explainability, this thesis proposes content models based on SFLASSO, which identifies the most significant features influencing a target outcome. It also introduces a variant called SFLASSO-SI, which performs selective inference for a conservative significance test. Furthermore, a two-stage anchoring-and-adjustment approach is proposed: in the first stage, the optimal penalisation value is identified along the regularisation path; in the second stage, features with high Variance Inflation Factor (VIF) are removed to improve the…

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