Semi-supervised clickbait detection in low-resource settings via attention-guided fusion with Cosine regularization
摘要
Clickbait refers to sensationalized and misleading headlines designed to attract user attention, often at the cost of informational credibility. Despite significant progress in clickbait detection for high-resource languages, low-resource languages such as Bangla remain severely underrepresented due to data scarcity and limited linguistic tools. Existing Bangla approaches further restrict their scope by focusing primarily on headlines, overlooking article-level context that is critical for robust detection. To bridge this gap, we propose a novel semi-supervised Generative Adversarial Network (SS-GAN) framework that advances Bangla clickbait detection by jointly modeling headline and full-article representations. Our approach introduces an attention-guided dual-representation fusion mechanism built on BanglaBERT, enabling effective exploitation of large-scale unlabeled data in resource-constrained settings. We further enhance semantic reliability by incorporating a cosine similarity–based consistency constraint between title and content representations within the discriminator. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art performance, with an F1-score of 0.7595 and an accuracy of 0.8406. Beyond Bangla, this work establishes a scalable semi-supervised paradigm for clickbait detection in low-resource languages, contributing toward more trustworthy and resilient digital news platforms.