Computational approaches to the detection of lesser-known rhetorical figures: A systematic survey and research challenges

R Kühn, J Mitrović, M Granitzer - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.16674, 2024 - arxiv.org
Rhetorical figures play a major role in our everyday communication as they make text more
interesting, more memorable, or more persuasive. Therefore, it is important to …

Searching for PETs: Using distributional and sentiment-based methods to find potentially euphemistic terms

P Lee, M Gavidia, A Feldman, J Peng - arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.10451, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a linguistically driven proof of concept for finding potentially euphemistic
terms, or PETs. Acknowledging that PETs tend to be commonly used expressions for a …

The elephant in the room: Ten challenges of computational detection of rhetorical figures

R Kühn, J Mitrović - Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
Computational detection of rhetorical figures focuses mostly on figures such as metaphor,
irony, or analogy. However, there exist many more figures that are neither less important nor …

Uncovering and Mitigating the Hidden Chasm: A Study on the Text-Text Domain Gap in Euphemism Identification

Y Hu, J Li, M Wu, Z Huang, G Chen… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Euphemisms are commonly used on social media and darknet marketplaces to evade
platform regulations by masking their true meanings with innocent ones. For instance,“weed” …

Detecting Euphemisms with Literal Descriptions and Visual Imagery

I Kesen, A Erdem, E Erdem, I Calixto - arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.04576, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper describes our two-stage system for the Euphemism Detection shared task hosted
by the 3rd Workshop on Figurative Language Processing in conjunction with EMNLP 2022 …

Ensemble-based Multilingual Euphemism Detection: a Behavior-Guided Approach

F Vitiugin, H Paakki - Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
This paper describes the system submitted by our team to the Multilingual Euphemism
Detection Shared Task for the Fourth Workshop on Figurative Language Processing …

Political dogwhistles and community divergence in semantic change

M Boholm, A Sayeed - Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
We test whether the development of political dogwhistles can be observed using language
change measures; specifically, does the development of a “hidden” message in a …

A report on the euphemisms detection shared task

P Lee, A Feldman, J Peng - arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.13327, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper presents The Shared Task on Euphemism Detection for the Third Workshop on
Figurative Language Processing (FigLang 2022) held in conjunction with EMNLP 2022 …

Report on the multilingual euphemism detection task

P Lee, A Feldman - Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
This paper presents the Multilingual Euphemism Detection Shared Task for the Fourth
Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (FigLang 2024) held in conjunction with …

Exploring euphemism detection in few-shot and zero-shot settings

SS Keh - arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.12926, 2022 - arxiv.org
This work builds upon the Euphemism Detection Shared Task proposed in the EMNLP 2022
FigLang Workshop, and extends it to few-shot and zero-shot settings. We demonstrate a few …