2 papers
cs.CL2026
When Semantic Overlap Is Not Enough: Cross-Lingual Euphemism Transfer Between Turkish and English
Hasan Can Biyik, Libby Barak, Jing Peng +1
Euphemisms substitute socially sensitive expressions, often softening or reframing meaning, and their reliance on cultural and pragmatic context complicates modeling across languag…
cs.CL2024
Turkish Delights: a Dataset on Turkish Euphemisms
Hasan Can Biyik, Patrick Lee, Anna Feldman
Euphemisms are a form of figurative language relatively understudied in natural language processing. This research extends the current computational work on potentially euphemistic…