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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

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 deceptive text that can manipulate web browsing, creating an information gap between a link and target page that literally baits a user into clicking. Clickbait detection continues to be well studied, but analyses of clickbait…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Austin McCutcheon , Chris Brogly

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

Text provides a compelling example of unstructured data that can be used to motivate and explore classification problems. Challenges arise regarding the representation of features of text and student linkage between text representations as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Nicholas J. Horton , Jie Chao , Phebe Palmer , William Finzer

In this paper, we propose an approach for the detection of clickbait posts in online social media (OSM). Clickbait posts are short catchy phrases that attract a user's attention to click to an article. The approach is based on a machine…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Aviad Elyashar , Jorge Bendahan , Rami Puzis

Recommendation is a prevalent and critical service in information systems. To provide personalized suggestions to users, industry players embrace machine learning, more specifically, building predictive models based on the click behavior…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Wenjie Wang , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He , Hanwang Zhang , Tat-Seng Chua

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

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

How can we generate concise explanations for multi-hop Reading Comprehension (RC)? The current strategies of identifying supporting sentences can be seen as an extractive question-focused summarization of the input text. However, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Naoya Inoue , Harsh Trivedi , Steven Sinha , Niranjan Balasubramanian , Kentaro Inui

Sensational headlines are headlines that capture people's attention and generate reader interest. Conventional abstractive headline generation methods, unlike human writers, do not optimize for maximal reader attention. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Peng Xu , Chien-Sheng Wu , Andrea Madotto , Pascale Fung

The rapidly growing amount of data that scientific content providers should deliver to a user makes them create effective recommendation tools. A title of an article is often the only shown element to attract people's attention. We offer an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Alexander Shvets

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

Clickbait spoiling aims to generate a short text to satisfy the curiosity induced by a clickbait post. As it is a newly introduced task, the dataset is only available in English so far. Our contributions include the construction of manually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Ni Putu Intan Maharani , Ayu Purwarianti , Alham Fikri Aji

Clickbait has grown to become a nuisance to social media users and social media operators alike. Malicious content publishers misuse social media to manipulate as many users as possible to visit their websites using clickbait messages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Martin Potthast , Tim Gollub , Matthias Hagen , Benno Stein

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

Multi-hop question answering requires models to gather information from different parts of a text to answer a question. Most current approaches learn to address this task in an end-to-end way with neural networks, without maintaining an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Jifan Chen , Shih-ting Lin , Greg Durrett

Online news outlets operate predominantly on an advertising-based revenue model, compelling journalists to create headlines that are often scandalous, intriguing, and provocative -- commonly referred to as clickbait. Automatic detection of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Marija Anđelić , Dominik Šipek , Laura Majer , Jan Šnajder

A considerable number of texts encountered daily are somehow connected with each other. For example, Wikipedia articles refer to other articles via hyperlinks, scientific papers relate to others via citations or (co)authors, while tweets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Albert Roethel , Maria Ganzha , Anna Wróblewska

Keyphrase extraction from a given document is the task of automatically extracting salient phrases that best describe the document. This paper proposes a novel unsupervised graph-based ranking method to extract high-quality phrases from a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Venktesh V , Mukesh Mohania , Vikram Goyal