Saved You A Click: Automatically Answering Clickbait Titles

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 explanation of the clickbait hook from the website text so tha...

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Johnson, Oliver, Beicheng Lou, Zhong, Janet, Kurenkov, Andrey
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LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 15.12.2022
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Summary: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 explanation of the clickbait hook from the website text so that the user does not need to read through the text themselves. We fine-tune an extractive question and answering model (RoBERTa) and an abstractive one (T5), using data scraped from the 'StopClickbait' Facebook pages and Reddit's 'SavedYouAClick' subforum. We find that both extractive and abstractive models improve significantly after finetuning. We find that the extractive model performs slightly better according to ROUGE scores, while the abstractive one has a slight edge in terms of BERTscores.
ISSN:2331-8422