Blow the Dog Whistle: A Chinese Dataset for Cant Understanding with Common Sense and World Knowledge
Canwen Xu, Wangchunshu Zhou, Tao Ge, Ke Xu, Julian McAuley, Furu Wei
Abstract
Cant is important for understanding advertising, comedies and dog-whistle politics. However, computational research on cant is hindered by a lack of available datasets. In this paper, we propose a large and diverse Chinese dataset for creating and understanding cant from a computational linguistics perspective. We formulate a task for cant understanding and provide both quantitative and qualitative analysis for tested word embedding similarity and pretrained language models. Experiments suggest that such a task requires deep language understanding, common sense, and world knowledge and thus can be a good testbed for pretrained language models and help models perform better on other tasks.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{xu-etal-2021-blow,
title = "Blow the Dog Whistle: A {C}hinese Dataset for Cant Understanding with Common Sense and World Knowledge",
author = "Xu, Canwen and
Zhou, Wangchunshu and
Ge, Tao and
Xu, Ke and
McAuley, Julian and
Wei, Furu",
editor = "Toutanova, Kristina and
Rumshisky, Anna and
Zettlemoyer, Luke and
Hakkani-Tur, Dilek and
Beltagy, Iz and
Bethard, Steven and
Cotterell, Ryan and
Chakraborty, Tanmoy and
Zhou, Yichao",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies",
month = jun,
year = "2021",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.172/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.172",
pages = "2139--2145"
}