FEED PETs: Further Experimentation and Expansion on the Disambiguation of Potentially Euphemistic Terms
Patrick Lee, Iyanuoluwa Shode, Alain Trujillo, Yuan Zhao, Olumide Ojo, Diana Plancarte, Anna Feldman, Jing Peng
Abstract
Transformers have been shown to work well for the task of English euphemism disambiguation, in which a potentially euphemistic term (PET) is classified as euphemistic or non-euphemistic in a particular context. In this study, we expand on the task in two ways. First, we annotate PETs for vagueness, a linguistic property associated with euphemisms, and find that transformers are generally better at classifying vague PETs, suggesting linguistic differences in the data that impact performance. Second, we present novel euphemism corpora in three different languages: Yoruba, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese. We perform euphemism disambiguation experiments in each language using multilingual transformer models mBERT and XLM-RoBERTa, establishing preliminary results from which to launch future work.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.starsem-1.38
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2023)
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Toronto, Canada
- Editors:
- Alexis Palmer, Jose Camacho-collados
- Venue:
- *SEM
- SIG:
- SIGLEX
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 437–448
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1.38
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2023.starsem-1.38
- Cite (ACL):
- Patrick Lee, Iyanuoluwa Shode, Alain Trujillo, Yuan Zhao, Olumide Ojo, Diana Plancarte, Anna Feldman, and Jing Peng. 2023. FEED PETs: Further Experimentation and Expansion on the Disambiguation of Potentially Euphemistic Terms. In Proceedings of the 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2023), pages 437–448, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- FEED PETs: Further Experimentation and Expansion on the Disambiguation of Potentially Euphemistic Terms (Lee et al., *SEM 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/proper-vol2-ingestion/2023.starsem-1.38.pdf