“Somewhere along your pedigree, a bitch got over the wall!” A proposal of implicitly offensive language typology
Kristina Š. Despot,
Ana Ostroški Anić,
Tony Veale
Abstract:The automatic detection of implicitly offensive language is a challenge for NLP, as such language is subtle, contextual, and plausibly deniable, but it is becoming increasingly important with the wider use of large language models to generate human-quality texts. This study argues that current difficulties in detecting implicit offence are exacerbated by multiple factors: (a) inadequate definitions of implicit and explicit offense; (b) an insufficient typology of implicit offence; and (c) a dearth of detailed … Show more
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