Julia Jaremko

Revisiting Implicitly Abusive Language Detection: Evaluating LLMs in Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Settings

Implicitly abusive language (IAL), unlike its explicit counterpart, lacks overt slurs or unambiguously offensive keywords, such as “bimbo” or “scum”, making it challenging to detect and mitigate. While current research predominantly focuses on explicitly abusive language, the subtler and more covert…