Incongruent Headlines: Yet Another Way to Mislead Your Readers
Sophie Chesney, Maria Liakata, Massimo Poesio, Matthew Purver
Abstract
This paper discusses the problem of incongruent headlines: those which do not accurately represent the information contained in the article with which they occur. We emphasise that this phenomenon should be considered separately from recognised problematic headline types such as clickbait and sensationalism, arguing that existing natural language processing (NLP) methods applied to these related concepts are not appropriate for the automatic detection of headline incongruence, as an analysis beyond stylistic traits is necessary. We therefore suggest a number of alternative methodologies that may be appropriate to the task at hand as a foundation for future work in this area. In addition, we provide an analysis of existing data sets which are related to this work, and motivate the need for a novel data set in this domain.- Anthology ID:
- W17-4210
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2017 EMNLP Workshop: Natural Language Processing meets Journalism
- Month:
- September
- Year:
- 2017
- Address:
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Editors:
- Octavian Popescu, Carlo Strapparava
- Venue:
- WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 56–61
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/build-pipeline-with-new-library/W17-4210/
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W17-4210
- Cite (ACL):
- Sophie Chesney, Maria Liakata, Massimo Poesio, and Matthew Purver. 2017. Incongruent Headlines: Yet Another Way to Mislead Your Readers. In Proceedings of the 2017 EMNLP Workshop: Natural Language Processing meets Journalism, pages 56–61, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Incongruent Headlines: Yet Another Way to Mislead Your Readers (Chesney et al., 2017)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/build-pipeline-with-new-library/W17-4210.pdf