BanglaBait: Semi-Supervised Adversarial Approach for Clickbait Detection on Bangla Clickbait Dataset

Md. Motahar Mahtab, Monirul Haque, Mehedi Hasan, Farig Sadeque


Abstract
Intentionally luring readers to click on a particular content by exploiting their curiosity defines a title as clickbait. Although several studies focused on detecting clickbait titles in English articles, low-resource language like Bangla has not been given adequate attention. To tackle clickbait titles in Bangla, we have constructed the first Bangla clickbait detection dataset containing 15,056 labeled news articles and 65,406 unlabelled news articles extracted from clickbait-dense news sites. Each article has been labeled by three expert linguists and includes an article’s title, body, and other metadata. By incorporating labeled and unlabelled data, we finetune a pre-trained Bangla transformer model in an adversarial fashion using Semi-Supervised Generative Adversarial Networks (SS-GANs). The proposed model acts as a good baseline for this dataset, outperforming traditional neural network models (LSTM, GRU, CNN) and linguistic feature-based models. We expect that this dataset and the detailed analysis and comparison of these clickbait detection models will provide a fundamental basis for future research into detecting clickbait titles in Bengali articles.
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2023.ranlp-1.81
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Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
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September
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2023
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Varna, Bulgaria
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Ruslan Mitkov, Galia Angelova
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RANLP
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INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
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748–758
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Md. Motahar Mahtab, Monirul Haque, Mehedi Hasan, and Farig Sadeque. 2023. BanglaBait: Semi-Supervised Adversarial Approach for Clickbait Detection on Bangla Clickbait Dataset. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, pages 748–758, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.
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BanglaBait: Semi-Supervised Adversarial Approach for Clickbait Detection on Bangla Clickbait Dataset (Mahtab et al., RANLP 2023)
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