Catchphrase: Automatic Detection of Cultural References

Nir Sweed; Dafna Shahaf

doi:10.18653/v1/2021.acl-short.1

Catchphrase: Automatic Detection of Cultural References

The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Engineering and Computer Science

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Abstract

A snowclone is a customizable phrasal template that can be realized in multiple, instantly recognized variants. For example, "*is the new*" (Orange is the new black, 40 is the new 30). Snowclones are extensively used in social media. In this paper, we study snowclones originating from pop-culture quotes; our goal is to automatically detect cultural references in text. We introduce a new, publicly available data set of pop-culture quotes and their corresponding snowclone usages and train models on them. We publish code for CATCHPHRASE, an internet browser plugin to automatically detect and mark references in real-time, and examine its performance via a user study. Aside from assisting people to better comprehend cultural references, we hope that detecting snowclones can complement work on paraphrasing and help to tackle long-standing questions in social science about the dynamics of information propagation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ACL-IJCNLP 2021 - 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	1-7
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781954085534
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.acl-short.1
State	Published - 2021
Event	Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, ACL-IJCNLP 2021 - Virtual, Online Duration: 1 Aug 2021 → 6 Aug 2021

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Name	ACL-IJCNLP 2021 - 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference
Volume	2

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Conference	Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, ACL-IJCNLP 2021
City	Virtual, Online
Period	1/08/21 → 6/08/21

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Sweed, N., & Shahaf, D. (2021). Catchphrase: Automatic Detection of Cultural References. In ACL-IJCNLP 2021 - 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference (pp. 1-7). (ACL-IJCNLP 2021 - 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference; Vol. 2). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.acl-short.1

Sweed, Nir ; Shahaf, Dafna. / Catchphrase : Automatic Detection of Cultural References. ACL-IJCNLP 2021 - 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2021. pp. 1-7 (ACL-IJCNLP 2021 - 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference).

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Sweed, N & Shahaf, D 2021, Catchphrase: Automatic Detection of Cultural References. in ACL-IJCNLP 2021 - 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference. ACL-IJCNLP 2021 - 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference, vol. 2, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 1-7, Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, ACL-IJCNLP 2021, Virtual, Online, 1/08/21. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.acl-short.1

Catchphrase: Automatic Detection of Cultural References. / Sweed, Nir ; Shahaf, Dafna.
ACL-IJCNLP 2021 - 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2021. p. 1-7 (ACL-IJCNLP 2021 - 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference; Vol. 2).

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Sweed N , Shahaf D. Catchphrase: Automatic Detection of Cultural References. In ACL-IJCNLP 2021 - 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2021. p. 1-7. (ACL-IJCNLP 2021 - 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference). doi: 10.18653/v1/2021.acl-short.1

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