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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

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

Online content publishers often use catchy headlines for their articles in order to attract users to their websites. These headlines, popularly known as clickbaits, exploit a user's curiosity gap and lure them to click on links that often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Ankesh Anand , Tanmoy Chakraborty , Noseong Park

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

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 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

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

In the age of information overload, content management for online news articles relies on efficient summarization to enhance accessibility and user engagement. This article addresses the challenge of extractive text summarization by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Sajib Biswas , Milon Biswas , Arunima Mandal , Fatema Tabassum Liza , Joy Sarker

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

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

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

The purpose of a clickbait is to make a link so appealing that people click on it. However, the content of such articles is often not related to the title, shows poor quality, and at the end leaves the reader unsatisfied. To help the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Alexey Grigorev

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

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

Embedding news articles is a crucial tool for multiple fields, such as media bias detection, identifying fake news, and making news recommendations. However, existing news embedding methods are not optimized to capture the latent context of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Koren Ishlach , Itzhak Ben-David , Michael Fire , Lior Rokach

Intentionally luring readers to click on a particular content by exploiting their curiosity defines a title as clickbait. Although several studies focused on detecting clickbait titles in English articles, low resource language like Bangla…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Md. Motahar Mahtab , Monirul Haque , Mehedi Hasan , Farig Sadeque

The emergence of social media as news sources has led to the rise of clickbait posts attempting to attract users to click on article links without informing them on the actual article content. This paper presents our efforts to create a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Olga Papadopoulou , Markos Zampoglou , Symeon Papadopoulos , Ioannis Kompatsiaris

This paper develops a model that addresses sentence embedding, a hot topic in current natural language processing research, using recurrent neural networks with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) cells. Due to its ability to capture long term…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Hamid Palangi , Li Deng , Yelong Shen , Jianfeng Gao , Xiaodong He , Jianshu Chen , Xinying Song , Rabab Ward

The widespread use of clickbait headlines, crafted to mislead and maximize engagement, poses a significant challenge to online credibility. These headlines employ sensationalism, misleading claims, and vague language, underscoring the need…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Chhavi Dhiman , Naman Chawla , Riya Dhami , Gaurav Kumar , Ganesh Naik

With the ever decreasing attention span of contemporary Internet users, the title of online content (such as a news article or video) can be a major factor in determining its popularity. To take advantage of this phenomenon, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Wociech Stokowiec , Tomasz Trzcinski , Krzysztof Wolk , Krzysztof Marasek , Przemyslaw Rokita
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