Lorenzo Musetti

PejorativITy: Disambiguating Pejorative Epithets to Improve Misogyny Detection in Italian Tweets

Misogyny is often expressed through figurative language. Some neutral words can assume a negative connotation when functioning as pejorative epithets. Disambiguating the meaning of such terms might help the detection of misogyny. In order to address such task, we present PejorativITy, a novel corpus…