Papers with euphemism detection
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. |
A Unified Generative Framework for Bilingual Euphemism Detection and Identification (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing euphemism datasets are only domain-specific or language-specific. |
| Approach: | They propose a unified model to jointly conduct bilingual euphemism detection and identification tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is effective and provides a new reference standard for euphemism detection and identification. |
Impromptu Cybercrime Euphemism Detection (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for detecting euphemisms are ineffective in impromptu euphorism detection . Existing approaches for e-mail detection are limited to word-level ephemismals . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for impromptu euphemism detection that integrates context augmentation and multi-round iterative training to better predict the actual meaning of a masked token. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves 76-fold over the previous state-of-the-art euphemism detector. |