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Clickbait is the practice of engineering titles to incentivize readers to click through to articles. Such titles with sensationalized language reveal as little information as possible. Occasionally, clickbait will be intentionally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Adhitya Thirumala , Elisa Ferracane

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

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

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

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

The proliferation of fake news and its propagation on social media has become a major concern due to its ability to create devastating impacts. Different machine learning approaches have been suggested to detect fake news. However, most of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Junaed Younus Khan , Md. Tawkat Islam Khondaker , Sadia Afroz , Gias Uddin , Anindya Iqbal

The automatic identification of propaganda has gained significance in recent years due to technological and social changes in the way news is generated and consumed. That this task can be addressed effectively using BERT, a powerful new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Harish Tayyar Madabushi , Elena Kochkina , Michael Castelle

Media coverage has a substantial effect on the public perception of events. Nevertheless, media outlets are often biased. One way to bias news articles is by altering the word choice. The automatic identification of bias by word choice is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Timo Spinde

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

Fake news poses a significant threat to public opinion and social stability in modern society. This study presents a comparative evaluation of BERT-like encoder-only models and autoregressive decoder-only large language models (LLMs) for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Shaina Raza , Drai Paulen-Patterson , Chen Ding

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

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

Often clickbait articles have a title that is phrased as a question or vague teaser that entices the user to click on the link and read the article to find the explanation. We developed a system that will automatically find the answer or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Oliver Johnson , Beicheng Lou , Janet Zhong , Andrey Kurenkov

Bias in news reporting significantly impacts public perception, particularly regarding crime, politics, and societal issues. Traditional bias detection methods, predominantly reliant on human moderation, suffer from subjective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Chen Wei Kuo , Kevin Chu , Nouar AlDahoul , Hazem Ibrahim , Talal Rahwan , Yasir Zaki

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

Understanding covert narratives and implicit messaging is essential for analyzing bias and sentiment. Traditional NLP methods struggle with detecting subtle phrasing and hidden agendas. This study tackles two key challenges: (1) multi-label…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Rishit Tyagi , Rahul Bouri , Mohit Gupta

Much research has been done for debunking and analysing fake news. Many researchers study fake news detection in the last year, but many are limited to social media data. Currently, multiples fact-checkers are publishing their results in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Sushma Kumari

Cyberbullying significantly contributes to mental health issues in communities by negatively impacting the psychology of victims. It is a prevalent problem on social media platforms, necessitating effective, real-time detection and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Adamu Gaston Philipo , Doreen Sebastian Sarwatt , Jianguo Ding , Mahmoud Daneshmand , Huansheng Ning

Fake news detection has become a major task to solve as there has been an increasing number of fake news on the internet in recent years. Although many classification models have been proposed based on statistical learning methods showing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Daesoo Lee

This study introduces 'clickbait spoiling', a novel technique designed to detect, categorize, and generate spoilers as succinct text responses, countering the curiosity induced by clickbait content. By leveraging a multi-task learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Sayantan Pal , Souvik Das , Rohini K. Srihari