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Contribution to Book
Clickbait Detection for YouTube Videos
Advances in Information Security
  • Ruchira Gothankar, San Jose State University
  • Fabio Di Troia, San Jose State University
  • Mark Stamp, San Jose State University
Publication Date
1-1-2022
Document Type
Contribution to a Book
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-97087-1_11
Abstract

YouTube videos often include captivating descriptions and intriguing thumbnails designed to increase the number of views, and thereby increase the revenue for the person who posted the video. This creates an incentive for people to post clickbait videos, in which the content might deviate significantly from the title, description, or thumbnail. In effect, users are tricked into clicking on clickbait videos. In this research, we consider the challenging problem of detecting clickbait YouTube videos. We experiment with multiple state-of-the-art machine learning techniques using a variety of textual features.

Citation Information
Ruchira Gothankar, Fabio Di Troia and Mark Stamp. "Clickbait Detection for YouTube Videos" Advances in Information Security Vol. 54 (2022) p. 261 - 284
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/mark_stamp/127/