Generating clickbait spoilers with an ensemble of large language models

Mateusz Woźny, Mateusz Lango


Abstract
Clickbait posts are a widespread problem in the webspace. The generation of spoilers, i.e. short texts that neutralize clickbait by providing information that makes it uninteresting, is one of the proposed solutions to the problem. Current state-of-the-art methods are based on passage retrieval or question answering approaches and are limited to generating spoilers only in the form of a phrase or a passage. In this work, we propose an ensemble of fine-tuned large language models for clickbait spoiler generation. Our approach is not limited to phrase or passage spoilers, but is also able to generate multipart spoilers that refer to several non-consecutive parts of text. Experimental evaluation demonstrates that the proposed ensemble model outperforms the baselines in terms of BLEU, METEOR and BERTScore metrics.
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2023.inlg-main.32
Volume:
Proceedings of the 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference
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September
Year:
2023
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Prague, Czechia
Editors:
C. Maria Keet, Hung-Yi Lee, Sina Zarrieß
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INLG | SIGDIAL
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SIGGEN
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
431–436
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.inlg-main.32
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.inlg-main.32
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Mateusz Woźny and Mateusz Lango. 2023. Generating clickbait spoilers with an ensemble of large language models. In Proceedings of the 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference, pages 431–436, Prague, Czechia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Generating clickbait spoilers with an ensemble of large language models (Woźny & Lango, INLG-SIGDIAL 2023)
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