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Impromptu Cybercrime Euphemism Detection

  • Xiang Li
  • , Yucheng Zhou
  • , Jing Li*
  • , Fangming Liu*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen
  • Pengcheng Laboratory
  • University of Macau

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Abstract

Detecting euphemisms is essential for content security on various social media platforms, but existing methods designed for detecting euphemisms are ineffective in impromptu euphemisms. In this work, we make a first attempt to an exploration of impromptu euphemism detection and introduce the Impromptu Cybercrime Euphemisms Detection (ICED) dataset. Moreover, we propose a detection framework tailored to this problem, which employs context augmentation modeling and multi-round iterative training. Our detection framework mainly consists of a coarse-grained and a fine-grained classification model. The coarse-grained classification model removes most of the harmless content in the corpus to be detected. The fine-grained model, impromptu euphemisms detector, integrates context augmentation and multi-round iterations training to better predicts the actual meaning of a masked token. In addition, we leverage ChatGPT to evaluate the mode's capability. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach achieves a remarkable 76-fold improvement compared to the previous state-of-the-art euphemism detector.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMain Conference
EditorsOwen Rambow, Leo Wanner, Marianna Apidianaki, Hend Al-Khalifa, Barbara Di Eugenio, Steven Schockaert
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages9112-9123
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9798891761964
StatePublished - 2025
Externally publishedYes
Event31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2025 - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 19 Jan 202524 Jan 2025

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING
ISSN (Print)2951-2093

Conference

Conference31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2025
Country/TerritoryUnited Arab Emirates
CityAbu Dhabi
Period19/01/2524/01/25

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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