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Euphemisms for Euthanasia

Nursing Ethics, 1995
Many patients are subject to 'do not resuscitate' orders or are 'allowed to die'. The predominant moral position within health care seems to be that this is permissible, while voluntary euthanasia is not. This paper attempts to consider the logic of that position.
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Impromptu Cybercrime Euphemism Detection

International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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
Xiang Li, Yucheng Zhou, Laiping Zhao, Jing Li, Fangming Liu   +4 more
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Report on the Multilingual Euphemism Detection Task

FIGLANG
This paper presents the Multilingual Euphemism Detection Shared Task for the Fourth Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (FigLang 2024) held in conjunction with NAACL 2024.
Patrick Lee, Anna Feldman
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A Unified Generative Framework for Bilingual Euphemism Detection and Identification

Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Various euphemisms are emerging in social net-001 works, attracting widespread attention from 002 the natural language processing community. 003 However, existing euphemism datasets are only 004 domain-specific or language-specific.
Yuxue Hu, Junsong Li, Tongguan Wang, Dongyu Su, Guixin Su, Ying Sha   +5 more
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MEDs for PETs: Multilingual Euphemism Disambiguation for Potentially Euphemistic Terms

Findings
Euphemisms are found across the world’s languages, making them a universal linguistic phenomenon. As such, euphemistic data may have useful properties for computational tasks across languages.
Patrick Lee, Alain Chirino Trujillo, Diana Cuevas Plancarte, O. E. Ojo, Xinyi Liu, Iyanuoluwa Shode, Yuan Zhao, Jing Peng, Anna Feldman   +8 more
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A critical exploration of the usage of euphemism and hyperbole in the Sesotho sa Leboa translation of Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom

, 2021
Translation makes it easier for the target readership to be exposed to other cultures. It is, therefore, the responsibility of every translator to use the target language aptly to convey the intended meaning of the source language to the target readers ...
F. M. Kanyane
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Euphemism in laxative TV commercials: at the crossroads between politeness and persuasion

Journal of Politeness Research, 2021
Despite the stigma attached to human defecation and people’s reluctance to talk about it openly, there are certain communicative situations in which one cannot evade referring to the elimination of body wastes. This is the case of laxative TV commercials,
Eliecer Crespo-Fernández
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A probe into the application of English euphemism in college classroom teaching under multimedia network technology

, 2021
With the rapid development of modern computer technology, computer information management system has basically replaced the information statistics based on handwritten records.
Z. Zhai
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Euphemism

2015
Dilin toplumsal yaşamda kullanımı sırasında bazı ifadelerin doğrudan kullanımı karşıki kişilerin incinmelerine yol açabilir, bu nedenle gerek anadil kullanımı gerekse yabancı dil kullanımı sırasında bu tür ifadeler dikkat edilmesi gerekir. Kimi toplumlarda gayet normal olarak kullanılan kelimelerin, kimi toplumlara göre tabu sayıldığı da bilinen bir ...
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Euphemism

2022
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