Katarzyna Lorenc


2025

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Behind Closed Words: Creating and Investigating the forePLay Annotated Dataset for Polish Erotic Discourse
Anna Kołos | Katarzyna Lorenc | Emilia Wiśnios | Agnieszka Karlińska
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

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.