Behind Closed Words: Creating and Investigating the forePLay Annotated Dataset for Polish Erotic Discourse

Anna Kołos, Katarzyna Lorenc, Emilia Wiśnios, Agnieszka Karlińska


Abstract
The surge in online content has created an urgent demand for robust detection systems, especially in non-English contexts where current tools demonstrate significant limitations. We introduce forePLay, a novel Polish-language dataset for erotic content detection, comprising over 24,000 annotated sentences. The dataset features a multidimensional taxonomy that captures ambiguity, violence, and socially unacceptable behaviors. Our comprehensive evaluation demonstrates that specialized Polish language models achieve superior performance compared to multilingual alternatives, with transformer-based architectures showing particular strength in handling imbalanced categories. The dataset and accompanying analysis establish essential frameworks for developing linguistically-aware content moderation systems, while highlighting critical considerations for extending such capabilities to morphologically complex languages.
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2025.acl-long.120
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Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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July
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2025
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Vienna, Austria
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Wanxiang Che, Joyce Nabende, Ekaterina Shutova, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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2416–2432
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Anna Kołos, Katarzyna Lorenc, Emilia Wiśnios, and Agnieszka Karlińska. 2025. Behind Closed Words: Creating and Investigating the forePLay Annotated Dataset for Polish Erotic Discourse. In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 2416–2432, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Behind Closed Words: Creating and Investigating the forePLay Annotated Dataset for Polish Erotic Discourse (Kołos et al., ACL 2025)
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