Francis Wilde at SemEval-2023 Task 5: Clickbait Spoiler Type Identification with Transformers
Vijayasaradhi Indurthi, Vasudeva Varma · 2023
Clickbait is the text or a thumbnail image that entices the user to click the accompanying link.Clickbait posts hide the critical elements of the article and reveal partial information in the title, which arouses sufficient curiosity and motivates the user to click the link.In this work, we identify the kind of spoiler given a clickbait title.We formulate this as a text classification problem.We finetune pretrained transformer models on the title of the post and build models for the clickbait-spoiler classification.We achieve a balanced accuracy of 0.70 which is close to the baseline.