Clark Kent at SemEval-2023 Task 5: SVMs, Transformers, and Pixels for Clickbait Spoiling

Dragos-stefan Mihalcea, Sergiu Nisioi


Abstract
In this paper we present an analysis of our approaches for the 2023 SemEval-2023 Clickbait Challenge. We only participated in the sub-task aiming at identifying different clikcbait spoiling types comparing several machine learning and deep learning approaches. Our analysis confirms previous results on this task and show that automatic methods are able to reach approximately 70\% accuracy at predicting what type of additional content is needed to mitigate sensationalistic posts on social media. Furthermore, we provide a qualitative analysis of the results, showing that the models may do better in practice than the metric indicates since the evaluate does not depend only on the predictor, but also on the typology we choose to define clickbait spoiling.
Anthology ID:
2023.semeval-1.167
Volume:
Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)
Month:
July
Year:
2023
Address:
Toronto, Canada
Editors:
Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Giovanni Da San Martino, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Ritesh Kumar, Elisa Sartori
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1204–1212
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2023.semeval-1.167
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.semeval-1.167
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Dragos-stefan Mihalcea and Sergiu Nisioi. 2023. Clark Kent at SemEval-2023 Task 5: SVMs, Transformers, and Pixels for Clickbait Spoiling. In Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023), pages 1204–1212, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Clark Kent at SemEval-2023 Task 5: SVMs, Transformers, and Pixels for Clickbait Spoiling (Mihalcea & Nisioi, SemEval 2023)
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