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Idiomatic Expression Identification using Semantic Compatibility
Ziheng Zeng, Suma Bhat
Idiomatic expressions are an integral part of natural language and constantly being added to a language. Owing to their non-compositionality and their ability to take on a figurati…
Euphemistic Phrase Detection by Masked Language Model
Wanzheng Zhu, Suma Bhat
It is a well-known approach for fringe groups and organizations to use euphemisms -- ordinary-sounding and innocent-looking words with a secret meaning -- to conceal what they are…
Generate, Prune, Select: A Pipeline for Counterspeech Generation against Online Hate Speech
Wanzheng Zhu, Suma Bhat
Countermeasures to effectively fight the ever increasing hate speech online without blocking freedom of speech is of great social interest. Natural Language Generation (NLG), is un…
Abusive Language Detection in Heterogeneous Contexts: Dataset Collection and the Role of Supervised Attention
Hongyu Gong, Alberto Valido, Katherine M. Ingram +3
Abusive language is a massive problem in online social platforms. Existing abusive language detection techniques are particularly ill-suited to comments containing heterogeneous ab…
From Solving a Problem Boldly to Cutting the Gordian Knot: Idiomatic Text Generation
Jianing Zhou, Hongyu Gong, Srihari Nanniyur +1
We study a new application for text generation -- idiomatic sentence generation -- which aims to transfer literal phrases in sentences into their idiomatic counterparts. Inspired b…
Self-Supervised Euphemism Detection and Identification for Content Moderation
Wanzheng Zhu, Hongyu Gong, Rohan Bansal +4
Fringe groups and organizations have a long history of using euphemisms--ordinary-sounding words with a secret meaning--to conceal what they are discussing. Nowadays, one common us…