2 papers
cs.CL2022
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…
cs.CL2022
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…