Blow the Dog Whistle: A Chinese Dataset for Cant Understanding with Common Sense and World Knowledge
Canwen Xu, Wangchunshu Zhou, Tao Ge, Ke Xu, Julian McAuley, Furu Wei
Abstract
Cant is important for understanding advertising, comedies and dog-whistle politics. However, computational research on cant is hindered by a lack of available datasets. In this paper, we propose a large and diverse Chinese dataset for creating and understanding cant from a computational linguistics perspective. We formulate a task for cant understanding and provide both quantitative and qualitative analysis for tested word embedding similarity and pretrained language models. Experiments suggest that such a task requires deep language understanding, common sense, and world knowledge and thus can be a good testbed for pretrained language models and help models perform better on other tasks.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.naacl-main.172
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- Online
- Editors:
- Kristina Toutanova, Anna Rumshisky, Luke Zettlemoyer, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Iz Beltagy, Steven Bethard, Ryan Cotterell, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Yichao Zhou
- Venue:
- NAACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 2139–2145
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.172
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.172
- Cite (ACL):
- Canwen Xu, Wangchunshu Zhou, Tao Ge, Ke Xu, Julian McAuley, and Furu Wei. 2021. Blow the Dog Whistle: A Chinese Dataset for Cant Understanding with Common Sense and World Knowledge. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 2139–2145, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Blow the Dog Whistle: A Chinese Dataset for Cant Understanding with Common Sense and World Knowledge (Xu et al., NAACL 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/2021.naacl-main.172.pdf
- Code
- JetRunner/dogwhistle
- Data
- DogWhistle, CLUE