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Detecting Contextomized Quotes in News Headlines by Contrastive Learning

Computation and Language 2023-02-10 v1 Computers and Society

Abstract

Quotes are critical for establishing credibility in news articles. A direct quote enclosed in quotation marks has a strong visual appeal and is a sign of a reliable citation. Unfortunately, this journalistic practice is not strictly followed, and a quote in the headline is often "contextomized." Such a quote uses words out of context in a way that alters the speaker's intention so that there is no semantically matching quote in the body text. We present QuoteCSE, a contrastive learning framework that represents the embedding of news quotes based on domain-driven positive and negative samples to identify such an editorial strategy. The dataset and code are available at https://github.com/ssu-humane/contextomized-quote-contrastive.

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@article{arxiv.2302.04465,
  title  = {Detecting Contextomized Quotes in News Headlines by Contrastive Learning},
  author = {Seonyeong Song and Hyeonho Song and Kunwoo Park and Jiyoung Han and Meeyoung Cha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.04465},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

8 pages, EACL 2023 (Findings)

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