English
Related papers

Related papers: Mitigating Clickbait: An Approach to Spoiler Gener…

200 papers

Even for domain experts, it is a non-trivial task to verify a scientific claim by providing supporting or refuting evidence rationales. The situation worsens as misinformation is proliferated on social media or news websites, manually or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Xiangci Li , Gully Burns , Nanyun Peng

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

Herein, we generate pseudo-features based on the multivariate probability distributions obtained from the feature maps in layers of trained deep neural networks. Further, we augment the minor-class data based on these generated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Tomohiko Konno , Michiaki Iwazume

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

Current summarization systems only produce plain, factual headlines, but do not meet the practical needs of creating memorable titles to increase exposure. We propose a new task, Stylistic Headline Generation (SHG), to enrich the headlines…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Di Jin , Zhijing Jin , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Lisa Orii , Peter Szolovits

Generating educational questions of fairytales or storybooks is vital for improving children's literacy ability. However, it is challenging to generate questions that capture the interesting aspects of a fairytale story with educational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Zhenjie Zhao , Yufang Hou , Dakuo Wang , Mo Yu , Chengzhong Liu , Xiaojuan Ma

An accurate abstractive summary of a document should contain all its salient information and should be logically entailed by the input document. We improve these important aspects of abstractive summarization via multi-task learning with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Han Guo , Ramakanth Pasunuru , Mohit Bansal

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

Automatic question generation is an important technique that can improve the training of question answering, help chatbots to start or continue a conversation with humans, and provide assessment materials for educational purposes. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Bang Liu , Mingjun Zhao , Di Niu , Kunfeng Lai , Yancheng He , Haojie Wei , Yu Xu

The social biases and unwelcome stereotypes revealed by pretrained language models are becoming obstacles to their application. Compared to numerous debiasing methods targeting word level, there has been relatively less attention on biases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Bingkang Shi , Xiaodan Zhang , Dehan Kong , Yulei Wu , Zongzhen Liu , Honglei Lyu , Longtao Huang

Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are ubiquitous in almost all levels of education since they are easy to administer, grade, and are a reliable form of assessment. An important aspect of MCQs is the distractors, i.e., incorrect options that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Hunter McNichols , Wanyong Feng , Jaewook Lee , Alexander Scarlatos , Digory Smith , Simon Woodhead , Andrew Lan

In this era of digitisation, news reader tend to read news online. This is because, online media instantly provides access to a wide variety of content. Thus, people don't have to wait for tomorrow's newspaper to know what's happening…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Sohom Ghosh

With the increasing popularity of online chatting, stickers are becoming important in our online communication. Selecting appropriate stickers in open-domain dialogue requires a comprehensive understanding of both dialogues and stickers, as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Zhexin Zhang , Yeshuang Zhu , Zhengcong Fei , Jinchao Zhang , Jie Zhou

The ability to understand logical relationships between sentences is an important task in language understanding. To aid in progress for this task, researchers have collected datasets for machine learning and evaluation of current systems.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Shawn Tan , Yikang Shen , Chin-wei Huang , Aaron Courville

The rapid dissemination of misinformation through social media increased the importance of automated fact-checking. Furthermore, studies on what deep neural models pay attention to when making predictions have increased in recent years.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Recep Firat Cekinel , Pinar Karagoz

Video tutorials are a popular medium for informal and formal learning. However, when learners attempt to view and follow along with these tutorials, they encounter what we call gaps, that is, issues that can prevent learning. We examine the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Ian Drosos , Advait Sarkar , Andrew D. Gordon

Multi-hop question answering faces substantial challenges due to data sparsity, which increases the likelihood of language models learning spurious patterns. To address this issue, prior research has focused on diversifying question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yangfan Wang , Jie Liu , Chen Tang , Lian Yan , Jingchi Jiang

Satire detection is essential for accurately extracting opinions from textual data and combating misinformation online. However, the lack of diverse corpora for satire leads to the problem of stylistic bias which impacts the models'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Asli Umay Ozturk , Recep Firat Cekinel , Pinar Karagoz

While large-scale neural language models, such as GPT2 and BART, have achieved impressive results on various text generation tasks, they tend to get stuck in undesirable sentence-level loops with maximization-based decoding algorithms…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Jin Xu , Xiaojiang Liu , Jianhao Yan , Deng Cai , Huayang Li , Jian Li

This paper proposes a method to gain extra supervision via multi-task learning for multi-modal video question answering. Multi-modal video question answering is an important task that aims at the joint understanding of vision and language.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Junyeong Kim , Minuk Ma , Kyungsu Kim , Sungjin Kim , Chang D. Yoo