SaRoHead: Detecting Satire in a Multi-Domain Romanian News Headline Dataset

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07612v3
• Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2025 15:19:07 GMT
• Title: SaRoHead: Detecting Satire in a Multi-Domain Romanian News Headline Dataset
• Authors: Mihnea-Alexandru Vîrlan, Răzvan-Alexandru Smădu, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel, Florin Pop, Mihaela-Claudia Cercel,
• Abstract summary: Even the headline must reflect the tone of the satirical main content.<n>Current approaches for the Romanian language detect the tone by combining the main article and the headline.
• Score: 3.1208433686641666
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: The primary goal of a news headline is to summarize an event in as few words as possible. Depending on the media outlet, a headline can serve as a means to objectively deliver a summary or improve its visibility. For the latter, specific publications may employ stylistic approaches that incorporate the use of sarcasm, irony, and exaggeration, key elements of a satirical approach. As such, even the headline must reflect the tone of the satirical main content. Current approaches for the Romanian language tend to detect the non-conventional tone (i.e., satire and clickbait) of the news content by combining both the main article and the headline. Because we consider a headline to be merely a brief summary of the main article, we investigate in this paper the presence of satirical tone in headlines alone, testing multiple baselines ranging from standard machine learning algorithms to deep learning models. Our experiments show that Bidirectional Transformer models outperform both standard machine-learning approaches and Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly when the meta-learning Reptile approach is employed.

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