33.2226, Confs: Computational Linguistics/Saudi Arabia

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Subject: 33.2226, Confs: Computational Linguistics/Saudi Arabia

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Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 01:49:04
From: Anna Feldman [feldmana at montclair.edu]
Subject: Euphemism Detection Shared Task

 
Euphemism Detection Shared Task 

Date: 07-Dec-2022 - 08-Dec-2022 
Location: Abu Dhabi / virtual, Saudi Arabia 
Contact: Anna Feldman 
Contact Email: feldmana at montclair.edu 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/figlang2022/shared-tasks?authuser=0 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Euphemism Detection Shared Task
Euphemisms are mild or indirect expressions used in place of harsher or more
offensive ones. Euphemisms are often used to mask profanity or refer to taboo
topics such as death, disability, sex, religion or personal relationships in a
polite way. Euphemisms are often ambiguous: their literal and non-literal
interpretation is context-dependent:


Asked to choose between jobs and the environment, a majority -- at least in
our warped, first-past-the-post system -- will pick jobs. [non-euphemistic]

vs. 

This summer, the budding talent agent was between jobs and free to babysit
pretty much any time. [euphemistic]


The state of the art language models perform well on many major NLP
benchmarks; however, it is unclear how such models perform on euphemisms.  
Thus, we propose a euphemism detection task: given an input sentence, identify
whether the sentence contains a euphemism.  


For more information about the shared task and to participate visit
https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/5726.

Important dates:

July 5, 2022: CodaLab competition is open; training data can be downloaded

Aug 5, 2022: Test data can be downloaded and results submitted; performance
will be tracked on CodaLab dashboard

Aug 20, 2022: Last day for submitting predictions on test data

Sept 7, 2022: Papers describing the systems are due

Oct 9, 2022: Notification of acceptance

TBD, 2022: Camera-ready papers due

December 7 or 8, 2022: Workshop
 






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