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    <abstract>We introduce and explore the concept of potentially problematic word usages (PPWUs): word occurrences that are likely to cause communication breakdowns of a semantic nature. While much research has been devoted to lexical complexity, ambiguity, vagueness and related issues, no work has attempted to fully capture the intricate nature of PPWUs. We review linguistic factors, datasets and metrics that can be helpful for PPWU detection. We also discuss challenges to their study, such as their complexity and subjectivity, and highlight the need for future work on this phenomenon.</abstract>
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Potentially Problematic Word Usages and How to Detect Them: A Survey
%A Garí Soler, Aina
%A Labeau, Matthieu
%A Clavel, Chloé
%Y Frermann, Lea
%Y Stevenson, Mark
%S Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025)
%D 2025
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Suzhou, China
%@ 979-8-89176-340-1
%F gari-soler-etal-2025-potentially
%X We introduce and explore the concept of potentially problematic word usages (PPWUs): word occurrences that are likely to cause communication breakdowns of a semantic nature. While much research has been devoted to lexical complexity, ambiguity, vagueness and related issues, no work has attempted to fully capture the intricate nature of PPWUs. We review linguistic factors, datasets and metrics that can be helpful for PPWU detection. We also discuss challenges to their study, such as their complexity and subjectivity, and highlight the need for future work on this phenomenon.
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%P 441-463

Markdown (Informal)

[Potentially Problematic Word Usages and How to Detect Them: A Survey](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.35/) (Garí Soler et al., *SEM 2025)

• Potentially Problematic Word Usages and How to Detect Them: A Survey (Garí Soler et al., *SEM 2025)

ACL

• Aina Garí Soler, Matthieu Labeau, and Chloé Clavel. 2025. Potentially Problematic Word Usages and How to Detect Them: A Survey. In Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025), pages 441–463, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.