*** Call for Participation for TA1C at IberLEF 2025 ***

TA1C (Te Ahorré Un Click) Clickbait Detection and Spoiling in Spanish at
IberLEF 2025

https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/21819

Clickbait is a widespread phenomenon in online news: it is a way of
creating headlines and teasers aimed at capturing readers’ attention in
order to increase traffic, relegating the function of informing to a
secondary role. There is no clear consensus at the moment about how to
define clickbait exactly, with some contradictory definitions that usually
are based on the deceptive effect created by the news failing to deliver
what they promise, or content based related phenomena such as
sensationalism or yellow journalism. For this task we will take the
following definition, based on Loewenstein's information gap theory: “Clickbait
is a method for generating teasers, especially online, that deliberately
omits part of the information with the goal of generating curiosity by
creating an information gap, thereby attracting the readers' attention and
making them click”.

Although clickbait started in low-reputation web-exclusive media that
focused on political propaganda or soft-news, such as The Huffington Post,
Buzzfeed and Upworthy, it has gained prominence across all types of news
and media. However, it is usually perceived as annoying and it can lead to
misinformation. Spoiling the clickbait involves satisfying the curiosity by
answering the information gap created. This way, the reader could have all
of the information and can decide to read the complete article based on
interest and not curiosity, just as if the headline was written in a
traditional way.

In this shared task we will provide a dataset of media tweets written in
different varieties of Spanish and from different sources, with their
corresponding associated media articles. Participants will be asked to
solve the following tasks:

* Clickbait Detection: Determine if the content of a tweet that links to a
media article is clickbait, given the previous definition of clickbait.
This is a binary classification task.

* Clickbait Spoiling: Given a clickbait teaser (tweet and title) and the
corresponding news article, generate or extract from the article a short
text that, as concisely as possible (280 characters max), fills the
information gap, satisfying the generated curiosity, or otherwise indicate
that the articles has no response for it. The generated text must be in
Spanish.

How to participate:

If you want to participate in this task, please join our Codalab competition
<https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/21819>:

Important Dates:

* April 1st, 2025: training and development sets.

* May 27th, 2025: test set and open for submissions.

* June 3rd, 2025: publication of results.

* June 12th, 2025: paper submission.

* June 20th, 2025: notification of acceptance.

* June 27th, 2025: camera-ready paper submission.

* September, 2025: IberLEF 2025 Workshop.
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