| Challenge: | a new paper examines the problem of computing cross-cultural differences and similarities in natural language understanding . cross-culture differences are important for cross-lingual research, especially in social media . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for computing cross-cultural differences and similarities from social media . they propose to use a social media platform to find similar terms for slang across languages . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baseline methods on two novel tasks. |
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