Cleansing & expanding the HURTLEX(el) with a multidimensional categorization of offensive words
Vivian Stamou, Iakovi Alexiou, Antigone Klimi, Eleftheria Molou, Alexandra Saivanidou, Στέλλα Μαρκαντωνάτου · 2022
We present a cleansed version of the Modern Greek branch of the multilingual lexicon HURTLEX. 1 The new version contains 737 offensive words.We worked bottom-up in two annotation rounds and developed detailed diagnostics of "offensiveness" by cross-classifying words on three dimensions: context, reference, and thematic domain.Our work reveals a wider spectrum of thematic domains concerning the study of offensive language than those identified in the Greek lexicographic literature as well as social and cultural aspects that are not included in the original HURTLEX categories.