# Turkish Delights: a Dataset on Turkish Euphemisms

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13040 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.13040/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 13 of its 34 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 17 Jul 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 13 of 13)

- [BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.04805/) (2018)
- [Unsupervised Cross-lingual Representation Learning at Scale](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.02116/) (2019)
- [Yara Parser: A Fast and Accurate Dependency Parser](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1503.06733/) (2015)
- [Self-Supervised Euphemism Detection and Identification for Content Moderation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.16808/) (2021)
- [CATs are Fuzzy PETs: A Corpus and Analysis of Potentially Euphemistic Terms](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.02728/) (2022)
- [Euphemistic Phrase Detection by Masked Language Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.04666/) (2021)
- [Searching for PETs: Using Distributional and Sentiment-Based Methods to Find Potentially Euphemistic Terms](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.10451/) (2022)
- [A Dataset and BERT-based Models for Targeted Sentiment Analysis on Turkish Texts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.04185/) (2022)
- [A Report on the Euphemisms Detection Shared Task](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.13327/) (2022)
- [EUREKA: EUphemism Recognition Enhanced through Knn-based methods and Augmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.12846/) (2022)
- [Detecting Euphemisms with Literal Descriptions and Visual Imagery](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.04576/) (2022)
- [FEED PETs: Further Experimentation and Expansion on the Disambiguation of Potentially Euphemistic Terms](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.00217/) (2023)
- [MEDs for PETs: Multilingual Euphemism Disambiguation for Potentially Euphemistic Terms](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.14526/) (2024)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [When Does Language Transfer Help? Sequential Fine-Tuning for Cross-Lingual Euphemism Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.11831/) (2025)
- [When Semantic Overlap Is Not Enough: Cross-Lingual Euphemism Transfer Between Turkish and English](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.16957/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Euphemisms are a form of figurative language relatively understudied in natural language processing. This research extends the current computational work on potentially euphemistic terms (PETs) to Turkish. We introduce the Turkish PET dataset, the first available of its kind in the field. By creating a list of euphemisms in Turkish, collecting example contexts, and annotating them, we provide both euphemistic and non-euphemistic examples of PETs in Turkish. We describe the dataset and methodologies, and also experiment with transformer-based models on Turkish euphemism detection by using our dataset for binary classification. We compare performances across models using F1, accuracy, and precision as evaluation metrics.