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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

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

While cross-lingual word embeddings have been studied extensively in recent years, the qualitative differences between the different algorithms remain vague. We observe that whether or not an algorithm uses a particular feature set…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Omer Levy , Anders Søgaard , Yoav Goldberg

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 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 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

We introduce and study the task of clickbait spoiling: generating a short text that satisfies the curiosity induced by a clickbait post. Clickbait links to a web page and advertises its contents by arousing curiosity instead of providing an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Matthias Hagen , Maik Fröbe , Artur Jurk , Martin Potthast

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

Natural Language Processing enables computers to understand human language by analysing and classifying text efficiently with deep-level grammatical and semantic features. Existing models capture features by learning from large corpora with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Azrin Sultana , Firoz Ahmed

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

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

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

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

Clickbait posts are a widespread problem in the webspace. The generation of spoilers, i.e. short texts that neutralize clickbait by providing information that satisfies the curiosity induced by it, is one of the proposed solutions to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Mateusz Woźny , Mateusz Lango

Language Models are being widely used in Education. Even though modern deep learning models achieve very good performance on question-answering tasks, sometimes they make errors. To avoid misleading students by showing wrong answers, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Jogi Suda Neto , Li Deng , Thejaswi Raya , Reza Shahbazi , Nick Liu , Adhitya Venkatesh , Miral Shah , Neeru Khosla , Rodrigo Capobianco Guido

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

In most cases, word embeddings are learned only from raw tokens or in some cases, lemmas. This includes pre-trained language models like BERT. To investigate on the potential of capturing deeper relations between lexical items and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Juuso Eronen , Michal Ptaszynski , Fumito Masui

Embedding models are crucial for various natural language processing tasks but can be limited by factors such as limited vocabulary, lack of context, and grammatical errors. This paper proposes a novel approach to improve embedding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Nicholas Harris , Anand Butani , Syed Hashmy

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

Embeddings are functions that map raw input data to low-dimensional vector representations, while preserving important semantic information about the inputs. Pre-training embeddings on a large amount of unlabeled data and fine-tuning them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Congzheng Song , Ananth Raghunathan