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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

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 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

This paper presents our research regarding spoiler detection in reviews. In this use case, we describe the method of fine-tuning and organizing the available text-based model tasks with the latest deep learning achievements and techniques…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Anna Wróblewska , Paweł Rzepiński , Sylwia Sysko-Romańczuk

Clickbait is characterized by disproportionately high emotional intensity relative to informational content, often reinforced by specific structural patterns. However, current research considers clickbait as a static textual phenomenon…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Syed Mhamudul Hasan , Mohd. Farhan Israk Soumik , Abdur R. Shahid

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

Several machine learning-based spoiler detection models have been proposed recently to protect users from spoilers on review websites. Although dependency relations between context words are important for detecting spoilers, current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Buru Chang , Inggeol Lee , Hyunjae Kim , Jaewoo Kang

The distractor generation task focuses on generating incorrect but plausible options for objective questions such as fill-in-the-blank and multiple-choice questions. This task is widely utilized in educational settings across various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Elaf Alhazmi , Quan Z. Sheng , Wei Emma Zhang , Munazza Zaib , Ahoud Alhazmi

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

Following the rising popularity of YouTube, there is an emerging problem on this platform called clickbait, which provokes users to click on videos using attractive titles and thumbnails. As a result, users ended up watching a video that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Bhanuka Gamage , Adnan Labib , Aisha Joomun , Chern Hong Lim , KokSheik Wong

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 computational approaches for automatically detecting critical plot twists in reviews of media products. First, we created a large-scale book review dataset that includes fine-grained spoiler annotations at the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Mengting Wan , Rishabh Misra , Ndapa Nakashole , Julian McAuley

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

Enhancing reader engagement while preserving informational fidelity is a central challenge in controllable text generation for news media. Optimizing news headlines for reader engagement is often conflated with clickbait, resulting in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yehudit Aperstein , Linoy Halifa , Sagiv Bar , Alexander Apartsin

Over the past decade, the media landscape has seen a radical shift. As more of the public stay informed of current events via online sources, competition has grown as outlets vie for attention. This competition has prompted some online…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Marc Kydd , Lynsay A. Shepherd

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

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

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

Multiple-choice cloze questions are commonly used to assess linguistic proficiency and comprehension. However, generating high-quality distractors remains challenging, as existing methods often lack adaptability and control over difficulty…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Seokhoon Kang , Yejin Jeon , Seonjeong Hwang , Gary Geunbae Lee

With the recent rise of toxicity in online conversations on social media platforms, using modern machine learning algorithms for toxic comment detection has become a central focus of many online applications. Researchers and companies have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Ameya Vaidya , Feng Mai , Yue Ning