Evaluation of profanity deobfuscation methods
Keywords:
profanity, cursing, user-generated content
Abstract
Cursing is a form of expression that is noted by its intensity. When someone uses this form of expression they are emitting a spontaneous and raw form of opinion, usually suppressed for the "mild ways'' and sensitive people. As it happens, this sort of expression is also valuable when doing some sort of opinion mining and sentiment analysis, now a routine task across the social networks. Therefore in this work we try to evaluate the methods that allow the recovery of this forms of expression, disguised through obfuscation methods, often as a way to escape automatic censorship.
Published
2014-12-25
How to Cite
Laboreiro, G., & Oliveira, E. (2014). Evaluation of profanity deobfuscation methods. Linguamática, 6(2), 25-43. Retrieved from https://linguamatica.com/index.php/linguamatica/article/view/v6n2-2
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Research Articles
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