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

Fedor Vitiugin, Henna Paakki


Abstract
This paper describes the system submitted by our team to the Multilingual Euphemism Detection Shared Task for the Fourth Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (FigLang 2024). We propose a novel model for multilingual euphemism detection, combining contextual and behavior-related features. The system classifies texts that potentially contain euphemistic terms with an ensemble classifier based on outputs from behavior-related fine-tuned models. Our results show that, for this kind of task, our model outperforms baselines and state-of-the-art euphemism detection methods. As for the leader-board, our classification model achieved a macro averaged F1 score of [anonymized], reaching the [anonymized] place.
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2024.figlang-1.10
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Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (FigLang 2024)
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June
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2024
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Mexico City, Mexico (Hybrid)
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Debanjan Ghosh, Smaranda Muresan, Anna Feldman, Tuhin Chakrabarty, Emmy Liu
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Fig-Lang | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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73–78
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.figlang-1.10
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.figlang-1.10
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Fedor Vitiugin and Henna Paakki. 2024. Ensemble-based Multilingual Euphemism Detection: a Behavior-Guided Approach. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (FigLang 2024), pages 73–78, Mexico City, Mexico (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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