# Why Swear? Analyzing and Inferring the Functions of Vulgar Expressions

**Citation:**
```
@InProceedings{cachola2018vulgar,
  author    = {Holgate, Eric  and  Cachola, Isabel  and  Preo\c{t}iuc-Pietro, Daniel  and  Li, Junyi Jessy},
  title     = {Why Swear? Analyzing and Inferring the Functions of Vulgar Expressions,
  booktitle = {Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
  year      = {2018},
  pages     = {to appear},
}
```
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