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Click counts are related to the amount of money that online advertisers paid to news sites. Such business models forced some news sites to employ a dirty trick of click-baiting, i.e., using a hyperbolic and interesting words, sometimes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Muhammad N. Fakhruzzaman , Saidah Z. Jannah , Ratih A. Ningrum , Indah Fahmiyah

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

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

Software vulnerability detection can be formulated as a binary classification problem that determines whether a given code snippet contains security defects. Existing multimodal methods typically fuse Natural Code Sequence (NCS)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yun Bian , Yi Chen , HaiQuan Wang , ShiHao Li , Zhe Cui

The emergence of social media as news sources has led to the rise of clickbait posts attempting to attract users to click on article links without informing them on the actual article content. This paper presents our efforts to create a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Olga Papadopoulou , Markos Zampoglou , Symeon Papadopoulos , Ioannis Kompatsiaris

The proliferation of multi-modal fake news on social media poses a significant threat to public trust and social stability. Traditional detection methods, primarily text-based, often fall short due to the deceptive interplay between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Junhao He , Tianyu Liu , Jingyuan Zhao , Benjamin Turner

The majority of existing methods for fake news detection universally focus on learning and fusing various features for detection. However, the learning of various features is independent, which leads to a lack of cross-interaction fusion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Lianwei Wu , Yuan Rao

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

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

The widespread proliferation of online content has intensified concerns about clickbait, deceptive or exaggerated headlines designed to attract attention. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a promising avenue for addressing this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Chaowei Zhang , Xiansheng Luo , Zewei Zhang , Yi Zhu , Jipeng Qiang , Longwei Wang

Web attack detection is the first line of defense for securing web applications, designed to preemptively identify malicious activities. Deep learning-based approaches are increasingly popular for their advantages: automatically learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Kangqiang Luo , Yi Xie , Shiqian Zhao , Jing Pan

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

The exponential growth of user-generated movie reviews on digital platforms has made accurate text sentiment classification a cornerstone task in natural language processing. Traditional models, including standard BERT and recurrent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Qingyang Li

Web agents have emerged as an effective paradigm for automating interactions with complex web environments, yet remain vulnerable to prompt injection attacks that embed malicious instructions into webpage content to induce unintended…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Mengyao Du , Han Fang , Haokai Ma , Jiahao Chen , Kai Xu , Quanjun Yin , Ee-Chien Chang

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

The nuisance of misinformation and fake news has escalated many folds since the advent of online social networks. Human consciousness and decision-making capabilities are negatively influenced by manipulated, fabricated, biased or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Priyanka Meel , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma

Fake news detection methods based on writing style have achieved remarkable progress. However, as adversaries increasingly imitate the style of authentic news, the effectiveness of such approaches is gradually diminishing. Recent research…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Jing He , Han Zhang , Yuanhui Xiao , Wei Guo , Shaowen Yao , Renyang Liu

In digital environments where substantial amounts of information are shared online, news headlines play essential roles in the selection and diffusion of news articles. Some news articles attract audience attention by showing exaggerated or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Kunwoo Park , Taegyun Kim , Seunghyun Yoon , Meeyoung Cha , Kyomin Jung

When machine learning supports decision-making in safety-critical systems, it is important to verify and understand the reasons why a particular output is produced. Although feature importance calculation approaches assist in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-14 Divish Rengasamy , Benjamin Rothwell , Grazziela Figueredo

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