4 papers
FEED PETs: Further Experimentation and Expansion on the Disambiguation of Potentially Euphemistic Terms
Patrick Lee, Iyanuoluwa Shode, Alain Chirino Trujillo +5
Transformers have been shown to work well for the task of English euphemism disambiguation, in which a potentially euphemistic term (PET) is classified as euphemistic or non-euphem…
NollySenti: Leveraging Transfer Learning and Machine Translation for Nigerian Movie Sentiment Classification
Iyanuoluwa Shode, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jing Peng +1
Africa has over 2000 indigenous languages but they are under-represented in NLP research due to lack of datasets. In recent years, there have been progress in developing labeled co…
A Report on the Euphemisms Detection Shared Task
Patrick Lee, Anna Feldman, Jing Peng
This paper presents The Shared Task on Euphemism Detection for the Third Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (FigLang 2022) held in conjunction with EMNLP 2022. Participants…
Searching for PETs: Using Distributional and Sentiment-Based Methods to Find Potentially Euphemistic Terms
Patrick Lee, Martha Gavidia, Anna Feldman +1
This paper presents a linguistically driven proof of concept for finding potentially euphemistic terms, or PETs. Acknowledging that PETs tend to be commonly used expressions for a…