%0 Journal Article %1 Hagen2022-eu %A Hagen, Matthias %A Fröbe, Maik %A Jurk, Artur %A Potthast, Martin %D 2022 %I arXiv %K %T Clickbait spoiling via question answering and passage retrieval %X 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 informative summary. Our contributions are approaches to classify the type of spoiler needed (i.e., a phrase or a passage), and to generate appropriate spoilers. A large-scale evaluation and error analysis on a new corpus of 5,000 manually spoiled clickbait posts -- the Webis Clickbait Spoiling Corpus 2022 -- shows that our spoiler type classifier achieves an accuracy of 80\%, while the question answering model DeBERTa-large outperforms all others in generating spoilers for both types.

@article{Hagen2022-eu, abstract = {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 informative summary. Our contributions are approaches to classify the type of spoiler needed (i.e., a phrase or a passage), and to generate appropriate spoilers. A large-scale evaluation and error analysis on a new corpus of 5,000 manually spoiled clickbait posts -- the Webis Clickbait Spoiling Corpus 2022 -- shows that our spoiler type classifier achieves an accuracy of 80\%, while the question answering model DeBERTa-large outperforms all others in generating spoilers for both types.}, added-at = {2024-12-09T09:27:58.000+0100}, author = {Hagen, Matthias and Fr{\"o}be, Maik and Jurk, Artur and Potthast, Martin}, biburl = {https://puma.scadsai.uni-leipzig.de/bibtex/22cb156b2bd3cd5b4d60b1c8353f1c950/lugi004g}, interhash = {09ae7fa19fe5a44880b0b726d3038d67}, intrahash = {2cb156b2bd3cd5b4d60b1c8353f1c950}, keywords = {}, publisher = {arXiv}, timestamp = {2024-12-09T09:27:58.000+0100}, title = {Clickbait spoiling via question answering and passage retrieval}, year = 2022 }