PejorativITy - In-Context Pejorative Language Disambiguation: A CALAMITA Challenge

Arianna Muti


Abstract
Misogyny is often expressed through figurative language. Some neutral words can assume a negative connotation when functioning as pejorative epithets, and they can be used to express misogyny. Disambiguating the meaning of such terms might help the detection of misogyny. This challenge addresses a) the disambiguation of specific ambiguous words in a given context; b) the detection of misogyny in instances that contain such polysemic words. In particular, framed as a binary classification, our task is divided into two parts. In Task A, the model is asked to define if, given a tweet, the target word is used in pejorative or non-pejorative way. In Task B, the model is asked whether the whole sentence is misogynous or not.
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2024.clicit-1.136
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Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024)
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December
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2024
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Pisa, Italy
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Felice Dell'Orletta, Alessandro Lenci, Simonetta Montemagni, Rachele Sprugnoli
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CLiC-it
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CEUR Workshop Proceedings
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1228–1233
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Arianna Muti. 2024. PejorativITy - In-Context Pejorative Language Disambiguation: A CALAMITA Challenge. In Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024), pages 1228–1233, Pisa, Italy. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
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