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Online news media sometimes use misleading headlines to lure users to open the news article. These catchy headlines that attract users but disappointed them at the end, are called Clickbaits. Because of the importance of automatic clickbait…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Amin Omidvar , Hui Jiang , Aijun An

Online media outlets, in a bid to expand their reach and subsequently increase revenue through ad monetisation, have begun adopting clickbait techniques to lure readers to click on articles. The article fails to fulfill the promise made by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Vaibhav Kumar , Dhruv Khattar , Siddhartha Gairola , Yash Kumar Lal , Vasudeva Varma

Clickbaits are online articles with deliberately designed misleading titles for luring more and more readers to open the intended web page. Clickbaits are used to tempted visitors to click on a particular link either to monetize the landing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Abinash Pujahari , Dilip Singh Sisodia

Clickbait is a pejorative term describing web content that is aimed at generating online advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines or eye-catching thumbnail pictures to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Vijayasaradhi Indurthi , Subba Reddy Oota

Clickbait (headlines) make use of misleading titles that hide critical information from or exaggerate the content on the landing target pages to entice clicks. As clickbaits often use eye-catching wording to attract viewers, target contents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Xinyue Cao , Thai Le , Jason , Zhang

In order to expand their reach and increase website ad revenue, media outlets have started using clickbait techniques to lure readers to click on articles on their digital platform. Having successfully enticed the user to open the article,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Vaibhav Kumar , Mrinal Dhar , Dhruv Khattar , Yash Kumar Lal , Abhimanshu Mishra , Manish Shrivastava , Vasudeva Varma

Most of the online news media outlets rely heavily on the revenues generated from the clicks made by their readers, and due to the presence of numerous such outlets, they need to compete with each other for reader attention. To attract the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Abhijnan Chakraborty , Bhargavi Paranjape , Sourya Kakarla , Niloy Ganguly

Clickbaits are catchy headlines that are frequently used by social media outlets in order to allure its viewers into clicking them and thus leading them to dubious content. Such venal schemes thrive on exploiting the curiosity of naive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Amrith Rajagopal Setlur

Clickbait, which aims to induce users with some surprising and even thrilling headlines for increasing click-through rates, permeates almost all online content publishers, such as news portals and social media. Recently, Large Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Han Wang , Yi Zhu , Ye Wang , Yun Li , Yunhao Yuan , Jipeng Qiang

Accuracy is one of the basic principles of journalism. However, it is increasingly hard to manage due to the diversity of news media. Some editors of online news tend to use catchy headlines which trick readers into clicking. These…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Wei Wei , Xiaojun Wan

This paper presents the results of our participation in the Clickbait Detection Challenge 2017. The system relies on a fusion of neural networks, incorporating different types of available informations. It does not require any linguistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Philippe Thomas

The use of alluring headlines (clickbait) to tempt the readers has become a growing practice nowadays. For the sake of existence in the highly competitive media industry, most of the on-line media including the mainstream ones, have started…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Md Main Uddin Rony , Naeemul Hassan , Mohammad Yousuf

Clickbait headlines degrade the quality of online information and undermine user trust. We present a hybrid approach to clickbait detection that combines transformer-based text embeddings with linguistically motivated informativeness…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Wojciech Michaluk , Tymoteusz Urban , Mateusz Kubita , Soveatin Kuntur , Anna Wroblewska

Click counts are related to the amount of money that online advertisers paid to news sites. Such business models forced some news sites to employ a dirty trick of click-baiting, i.e., using a hyperbolic and interesting words, sometimes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Muhammad N. Fakhruzzaman , Saidah Z. Jannah , Ratih A. Ningrum , Indah Fahmiyah

Clickbaits are surprising social posts or deceptive news headlines that attempt to lure users for more clicks, which have posted at unprecedented rates for more profit or commercial revenue. The spread of clickbait has significant negative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Haoxiang Deng , Yi Zhu , Ye Wang , Jipeng Qiang , Yunhao Yuan , Yun Li , Runmei Zhang

We propose a lightweight hybrid approach to clickbait detection that combines OpenAI semantic embeddings with six compact heuristic features capturing stylistic and informational cues. To improve efficiency, embeddings are reduced using PCA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Soveatin Kuntur , Panggih Kusuma Ningrum , Anna Wróblewska , Maria Ganzha , Marcin Paprzycki

The proliferation of clickbait headlines poses significant challenges to the credibility of information and user trust in digital media. While recent advances in machine learning have improved the detection of manipulative content, the lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Lihi Nofar , Tomer Portal , Aviv Elbaz , Alexander Apartsin , Yehudit Aperstein

This paper presents the results and conclusions of our participation in the Clickbait Challenge 2017 on automatic clickbait detection in social media. We first describe linguistically-infused neural network models and identify informative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Maria Glenski , Ellyn Ayton , Dustin Arendt , Svitlana Volkova

Clickbait is the practice of engineering titles to incentivize readers to click through to articles. Such titles with sensationalized language reveal as little information as possible. Occasionally, clickbait will be intentionally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Adhitya Thirumala , Elisa Ferracane

To increase revenue, news websites often resort to using deceptive news titles, luring users into clicking on the title and reading the full news. Clickbait detection is the task that aims to automatically detect this form of false…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Daria-Mihaela Broscoteanu , Radu Tudor Ionescu
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