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title = "Trigger Warnings Are Grounded in a Shared Vocabulary: A Corpus Analysis with User-Generated Labels",
author = "Heineking, Sebastian and
Wiegmann, Matti and
Wolska, Magdalena and
Stein, Benno and
Potthast, Martin",
editor = "Piperidis, Stelios and
Bel, N{\'u}ria and
van den Heuvel, Henk and
Ide, Nancy and
Krek, Simon and
Toral, Antonio",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = may,
year = "2026",
address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
publisher = "ELRA Language Resource Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.565/",
doi = "10.63317/5gaazphzhjgf",
pages = "7106--7125",
abstract = "Trigger warnings advise of potentially disturbing content. On that note: This document discusses abuse. But can we trust trigger warnings? For a warning to be credible, independent authors must have a shared understanding of the type of content that advises caution. We investigate for the first time whether trigger warnings are aligned with the vocabulary of texts written by uncoordinated authors. To quantify the lexical alignment of trigger warnings, we conduct a series of statistical tests on the texts of fan fiction authors who used warnings relating to emotional, physical, or sexual abuse. We find that the vocabulary of texts with these warnings is aligned with a curated dictionary of terms related to abuse. However, a high frequency of a term in texts with a warning does not necessarily indicate a semantic relation."
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%A Heineking, Sebastian
%A Wiegmann, Matti
%A Wolska, Magdalena
%A Stein, Benno
%A Potthast, Martin
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%Y Bel, Núria
%Y van den Heuvel, Henk
%Y Ide, Nancy
%Y Krek, Simon
%Y Toral, Antonio
%S Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
%D 2026
%8 May
%I ELRA Language Resource Association
%C Palma de Mallorca, Spain
%F heineking-etal-2026-trigger
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Markdown (Informal)
[Trigger Warnings Are Grounded in a Shared Vocabulary: A Corpus Analysis with User-Generated Labels](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.565/) (Heineking et al., LREC 2026)
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