From dogwhistles to bullhorns: Unveiling coded rhetoric with language models

J Mendelsohn, RL Bras, Y Choi, M Sap - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.17174, 2023 - arxiv.org
Dogwhistles are coded expressions that simultaneously convey one meaning to a broad
audience and a second one, often hateful or provocative, to a narrow in-group; they are …

Political dogwhistles and community divergence in semantic change

M Boholm, A Sayeed - Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
We test whether the development of political dogwhistles can be observed using language
change measures; specifically, does the development of a “hidden” message in a …

Silent Signals, Loud Impact: LLMs for Word-Sense Disambiguation of Coded Dog Whistles

J Kruk, M Marchini, R Magu, C Ziems… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
A dog whistle is a form of coded communication that carries a secondary meaning to specific
audiences and is often weaponized for racial and socioeconomic discrimination. Dog …

[PDF][PDF] Can political dogwhistles be predicted by distributional methods for analysis of lexical semantic change?

M Boholm, B Rönnerstrand, E Breitholtz… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
We show that meaning shifts in political dogwhistle expressions (DWEs) are explained by
the expressions changing with regard to their “hidden”(in-group) and “public”(out-group) …

Modeling Semantic Change through Large Language Models

F Periti - 2024 - tesidottorato.depositolegale.it
This PhD thesis focuses on computational modeling of semantic change through large
language models. It investigates the modeling of lexical semantic change, where words …