no code implementations • 2 Apr 2024 • Zhewei Sun, Qian Hu, Rahul Gupta, Richard Zemel, Yang Xu
Our work offers a comprehensive evaluation and a high-quality benchmark on English slang based on the OpenSubtitles corpus, serving both as a publicly accessible resource and a platform for applying tools for informal language processing.
1 code implementation • 16 Oct 2022 • Zhewei Sun, Yang Xu
However, slang semantic variation is not well understood and under-explored in the natural language processing of slang.
1 code implementation • NAACL 2022 • Zhewei Sun, Richard Zemel, Yang Xu
Slang is a predominant form of informal language making flexible and extended use of words that is notoriously hard for natural language processing systems to interpret.
1 code implementation • 3 Feb 2021 • Zhewei Sun, Richard Zemel, Yang Xu
Slang is a common type of informal language, but its flexible nature and paucity of data resources present challenges for existing natural language systems.
no code implementations • CONLL 2019 • Zhengqi Pei, Zhewei Sun, Yang Xu
The prevalence of informal language such as slang presents challenges for natural language systems, particularly in the automatic discovery of flexible word usages.