Dying or Departing? Euphemism Detection for Death Discourse in Historical Texts (2025.coling-main)
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Ali Al-Laith, Alexander Conroy, Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Bolette Pedersen, Carsten Levisen, Daniel Hershcovich
| Challenge: | euphemisms are a linguistic device used to soften discussions of uncomfortable topics . euphorias are used to refer to death in a less direct manner during a period of secularization . |
| Approach: | They propose to use a corpus of Danish and Norwegian novels to detect death-related euphemisms . they use pre-trained language models to detect euphoric and literal references to death . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on state-of-the-art language models. |
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