Zhen-Jie Huang


2017

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Rephrasing Profanity in Chinese Text
Hui-Po Su | Zhen-Jie Huang | Hao-Tsung Chang | Chuan-Jie Lin
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Abusive Language Online

This paper proposes a system that can detect and rephrase profanity in Chinese text. Rather than just masking detected profanity, we want to revise the input sentence by using inoffensive words while keeping their original meanings. 29 of such rephrasing rules were invented after observing sentences on real-word social websites. The overall accuracy of the proposed system is 85.56%