Billy-Batson at SemEval-2023 Task 5: An Information Condensation based System for Clickbait Spoiling
Anubhav Sharma, Sagar Joshi, Tushar Abhishek, Radhika Mamidi, Vasudeva Varma
Abstract
The Clickbait Challenge targets spoiling the clickbaits using short pieces of information known as spoilers to satisfy the curiosity induced by a clickbait post. The large context of the article associated with the clickbait and differences in the spoiler forms, make the task challenging. Hence, to tackle the large context, we propose an Information Condensation-based approach, which prunes down the unnecessary context. Given an article, our filtering module optimised with a contrastive learning objective first selects the parapraphs that are the most relevant to the corresponding clickbait.The resulting condensed article is then fed to the two downstream tasks of spoiler type classification and spoiler generation. We demonstrate and analyze the gains from this approach on both the tasks. Overall, we win the task of spoiler type classification and achieve competitive results on spoiler generation.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.semeval-1.259
- 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
- Venue:
- SemEval
- SIG:
- SIGLEX
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1878–1889
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.semeval-1.259
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2023.semeval-1.259
- Cite (ACL):
- Anubhav Sharma, Sagar Joshi, Tushar Abhishek, Radhika Mamidi, and Vasudeva Varma. 2023. Billy-Batson at SemEval-2023 Task 5: An Information Condensation based System for Clickbait Spoiling. In Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023), pages 1878–1889, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Billy-Batson at SemEval-2023 Task 5: An Information Condensation based System for Clickbait Spoiling (Sharma et al., SemEval 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/2023.semeval-1.259.pdf