Publications

EMNLP 2022 - Modeling the driving forces behind semantic variation in slang across different regions.

NAACL 2022 - Automated slang interpreter that takes into account both contextual and semantic information.

TACL 2021 - Applying neural contrastive learning to extract slang semantic extension patterns and apply them to generate novel slang.

CoNLL 2019 - Detect and locate the exact positions of slang tokens within sentences using deep learning techniques.

CogSci 2019 - Novel slang word choices can be predicted by applying cognitively motivated categorization models on lexical resources.

Software

SlangGen - Natural language processing pipeline to generate novel slang usages based on historical slang usages from dictionaries.

CatGO - A light-weight Python implmentation of popular categorization models with automatic parameter optimization.