MEDs for PETs: Multilingual Euphemism Disambiguation for Potentially Euphemistic Terms

no code implementations • 25 Jan 2024 • Patrick Lee, Alain Chirino Trujillo, Diana Cuevas Plancarte, Olumide Ebenezer Ojo, Xinyi Liu, Iyanuoluwa Shode, Yuan Zhao, Jing Peng, Anna Feldman

This study investigates the computational processing of euphemisms, a universal linguistic phenomenon, across multiple languages.

Cross-Lingual Transfer Zero-Shot Learning

FEED PETs: Further Experimentation and Expansion on the Disambiguation of Potentially Euphemistic Terms

no code implementations • 31 May 2023 • Patrick Lee, Iyanuoluwa Shode, Alain Chirino Trujillo, Yuan Zhao, Olumide Ebenezer Ojo, Diana Cuevas Plancarte, Anna Feldman, Jing Peng

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.