3 accepted papers
Detecting deviant language such as sexism, or nuanced language such as metaphors or sarcasm, is crucial for enhancing the safety, clarity, and interpretation of social interactions. While existing classifiers deliver strong results on these tasks, they often come with significant computational cost…
An extensive label system is pivotal to facilitate judicial fairness and social justice. Prior empirical research and our interview with legal professionals underscore the importance of extra-legal factors in criminal trials. To help identify sentencing biases and facilitate downstream applications,…
Whataboutism, a potent tool for disrupting narratives and sowing distrust, remains under-explored in quantitative NLP research. Moreover, past work has not distinguished its use as a strategy for misinformation and propaganda from its use as a tool for pragmatic and semantic framing. We introduce ne…