Exploring Euphemism Detection in Few-Shot and Zero-Shot Settings

Compared to other figures of speech like similes (Chakrabarty et al., 2020) and metaphors Euphemisms are figures of speech which aim to (Chakrabarty et al., 2021), work on euphemisms soften the blow of certain words which may be has been limited. Recently, Gavidia et al. (2022); too direct or too harsh (Magu and Luo, 2018; Felt Lee et al. (2022) released a new dataset of diverse and Riloff, 2020). In the EMNLP 2022 FigLang euphemisms and conducted analysis on automatically Workshop Euphemism Shared Task, participating identifying potentially euphemistic terms. In teams are given a set of sentences with potentially the past, Felt and Riloff (2020) used sentiment analysis euphemistic terms (PETs) enclosed in brackets, and techniques to recognize euphemistic and dysphemistic the task is to classify whether or not the PET in a phrases. Other studies also focused on given sentence is used euphemistically.