@InProceedings{palmer-robinson-phillips:2017:ALW1,
  author    = {Palmer, Alexis  and  Robinson, Melissa  and  Phillips, Kristy K.},
  title     = {Illegal is not a Noun: Linguistic Form for Detection of Pejorative Nominalizations},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the First Workshop on Abusive Language Online},
  month     = {August},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Vancouver, BC, Canada},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {91--100},
  abstract  = {This paper focuses on a particular type of abusive language, targeting 
	expressions in which typically neutral adjectives take on pejorative meaning
	when used as nouns - compare 'gay people' to 'the gays'. We first collect and
	analyze a corpus of hand-curated, expert-annotated pejorative nominalizations
	for four target adjectives: female, gay, illegal, and poor. We then collect a
	second corpus of automatically-extracted and POS-tagged, crowd-annotated
	tweets. For both corpora, we find support for the hypothesis that some
	adjectives, when nominalized, take on negative meaning. The targeted
	constructions are non-standard yet widely-used, and part-of-speech taggers
	mistag some nominal forms as adjectives. We implement a tool called NomCatcher
	to correct these mistaggings, and find that the same tool is effective for
	identifying new adjectives subject to transformation via nominalization into
	abusive language.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-3014}
}