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Euphemism Detection Shared Task

Euphemisms are mild or indirect expressions used in place of harsher or more offensive ones. Euphemisms are often used to mask profanity or refer to taboo topics such as death, disability, sex, religion or personal relationships in a polite way. Euphemisms are often ambiguous: their literal and non-literal interpretation is context-dependent:

Asked to choose *between jobs* and the environment, a majority -- at least in our warped, first-past-the-post system -- will pick jobs. [non-euphemistic]

vs.

This summer, the budding talent agent was *between jobs* and free to babysit pretty much any time. [euphemistic]

The state of the art language models perform well on many major NLP benchmarks; however, it is unclear how such models perform on euphemisms. Thus, we propose a euphemism detection task: given an input sentence, identify whether the sentence contains a euphemism.

For more information about the shared task and to participate visit https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/5726 https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fnam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fcodalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr%252Fcompetitions%252F5726%26data%3D05%257C01%257Cbbeigmanklebanov%2540ets.org%257C961ad415085642c0498208da5e94251b%257C0ba6e9b760b34fae92f37e6ddd9e9b65%257C0%257C0%257C637926287682203858%257CUnknown%257CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%253D%257C3000%257C%257C%257C%26sdata%3Dza4IUUv%252Bbyst3JyXiWlCJPLlXo7%252FgbHfqJFKnvLOh00%253D%26reserved%3D0&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3UxHqHrY-zz35VTzXtR2Sz .

*Important dates:*

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July 5, 2022: CodaLab competition is open; training data can be downloaded -

Aug 5, 2022: Test data can be downloaded and results submitted; performance will be tracked on CodaLab dashboard -

Aug 20, 2022: Last day for submitting predictions on test data -

Sept 7, 2022: Papers describing the systems are due -

Oct 9, 2022: Notification of acceptance -

TBD, 2022: Camera-ready papers due -

December 7 or 8, 2022: Workshop