FEED PETs: Further Experimentation and Expansion on the Disambiguation of Potentially Euphemistic Terms (2023.starsem-1)
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Patrick Lee, Iyanuoluwa Shode, Alain Trujillo, Yuan Zhao, Olumide Ojo, Diana Plancarte, Anna Feldman, Jing Peng
| Challenge: | Existing work on euphemism disambiguation tasks has focused on transformers . euphorias are expressions that soften the message they convey, therefore dictionary-based approaches are ineffective . |
| Approach: | They propose to annotate PETs for vagueness and use transformers to classify PETs . they perform euphemism disambiguation experiments in three different languages . |
| Outcome: | The proposed models perform well in English euphemism disambiguation task . preliminary results will be used to launch future work . |
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