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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 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

To advance understanding on how to engage readers, we advocate the novel task of automatic pull quote selection. Pull quotes are a component of articles specifically designed to catch the attention of readers with spans of text selected…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Tanner Bohn , Charles X. Ling

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

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

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

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

This paper focuses on detecting clickbait posts on the Web. These posts often use eye-catching disinformation in mixed modalities to mislead users to click for profit. That affects the user experience and thus would be blocked by content…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Jianxing Yu , Shiqi Wang , Han Yin , Zhenlong Sun , Ruobing Xie , Bo Zhang , Yanghui Rao

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 impact of continually evolving digital technologies and the proliferation of communications and content has now been widely acknowledged to be central to understanding our world. What is less acknowledged is that this is based on the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Lasya Venneti , Aniket Alam

Clickbait headlines are frequently used to attract readers to read articles. Although this headline type has turned out to be a technique to engage readers with misleading items, it is still unknown whether the technique can be used to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Sima Bhowmik , Md Main Uddin Rony , Md Mahfuzul Haque , Kristen Alley Swain , Naeemul Hassan

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

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

We study feature selection as a means to optimize the baseline clickbait detector employed at the Clickbait Challenge 2017. The challenge's task is to score the "clickbaitiness" of a given Twitter tweet on a scale from 0 (no clickbait) to 1…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Matti Wiegmann , Michael Völske , Benno Stein , Matthias Hagen , Martin Potthast

The topic of clickbait has garnered lot of attention since the advent of social media. Meriam-Webster defines Clickbait as something designed to make readers want to click on a hyperlink especially when the link leads to content of dubious…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Adil Rajput

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

Clickbait detection in tweets remains an elusive challenge. In this paper, we describe the solution for the Zingel Clickbait Detector at the Clickbait Challenge 2017, which is capable of evaluating each tweet's level of click baiting. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Yiwei Zhou

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

Pre-training a language model and then fine-tuning it for downstream tasks has demonstrated state-of-the-art results for various NLP tasks. Pre-training is usually independent of the downstream task, and previous works have shown that this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Tanish Lad , Himanshu Maheshwari , Shreyas Kottukkal , Radhika Mamidi

Native language identification (NLI) is the task of training (via supervised machine learning) a classifier that guesses the native language of the author of a text. This task has been extensively researched in the last decade, and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Barbara Berti , Andrea Esuli , Fabrizio Sebastiani