Evaluation of profanity deobfuscation methods

Authors

  • Gustavo Laboreiro FEUP-UP-LIACC
  • Eugénio Oliveira FEUP-UP-LIACC

Keywords:

profanity, cursing, user-generated content

Abstract

Cursing is a form of expression that is noted by its intensity. When someone uses this form of expression they are emitting a spontaneous and raw form of opinion, usually suppressed for the "mild ways'' and sensitive people. As it happens, this sort of expression is also valuable when doing some sort of opinion mining and sentiment analysis, now a routine task across the social networks. Therefore in this work we try to evaluate the methods that allow the recovery of this forms of expression, disguised through obfuscation methods, often as a way to escape automatic censorship.

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Published

2014-12-25

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Research Articles

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