One slur to rule them all

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Hi what the fuck does this mean

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  • oneser@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think the x-axis labels are wrong. Cosine similarity is used to compare vectors in maths. 1 would mean the vectors are going in the same direction and 0 would mean they are going 90° to each other and -1 is opposite.

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    • VoodooAardvark@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      While it seems you’re on to something with the x-axis, I do not believe that was the question. My interpretation, that I share, is wtf am I looking at? Haha

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    • starik@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      So the x-axis should be the same as the y-axis in this case?

      How do you calculate the cosine of a slur? Is that the joke?

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• calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Why would you make a post about slurs and then censor all of them.

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• FishFace@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The interpretation here depends on the idea of a word-vector. This is a component of language models which treat each individual word in a language as a vector in a pretty high-dimensional space (how high is up to the model author). The way this is usually described is that if you look at the word pairs “man - woman”, “boy - girl”, “king - queen” and so on, they should differ by a similar vector in word-vector-space, and that vector should correspond to the concept of “male” (or “female” depending on which way round you do it). If you have a word vector model, you should then be able to take the dot product of this gender concept-vector with a word like “actress” or “actor”, and see if it has learnt that “actress” is female and “actor” is kinda male but kinda gender neutral due to changing usage.

  So what this diagram is showing is a measure of similarity between various word vectors. Those vectors are (the vector of) a slur minus a related word. The idea is to see if subtracting “Mexican” from “spic” leaves you with an underlying concept of “slur” that corresponds to these other vectors - just like with gender and man, woman; boy, girl, etc.

  The confusion matrix is actually pretty interesting IMO. There is pretty high similarity between all of the “racial slur - race” vectors, and much less between “cunt - woman” and “fag - homosexual” and the others. So it’s showing that there isn’t that good a concept - in this word vector model at any rate - of “slur” in general, but you could argue pretty strongly that racial slur does exist in that way.

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• Engywuck@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I don’t get it at all.

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  • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Imagine modeling the components of a word mathematically. Each word has a value in some number of dimensions, like maybe how negative the word is, or how much it has to do with fruit or something.

    You’d be able to calculate a set of eigenvectors to describe each dimension, basically unit vectors. You could have an eigen-name or eigen-compliment, basically just a word that other names or compliments could be expressed in units of that word.

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    • Engywuck@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ok, I’m a physicist so math is fine. I just couldn’t get the diagram. Thanks!

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• TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is the first one ‘South Mexican’?

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  • breezeblock@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Spic Chink Fag Cunt Kyke Jap

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    • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I haven’t heard anyone use “Jap” outside my grandfather’s generation — and he fought a fucking war against them so no surprise he had some big feels there. But he’s also been dead about 25 years and I’ve never heard the word since.

      But also I don’t hang out with racists, so what do I know.

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    • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      How have I lived with a Jewish family all my life and never heard ‘Kyke’, yet I was well aware of ‘Faggot’ after only knowing about gay people for much less time?

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    • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Honestly most of these are out of fashion anyway

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• verdare@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Aren’t the x-axis labels wrong? If I’m interpreting this correctly, the x and y axes labels should be the same. That might be partly why people are getting confused.

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• ranzispa@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is all good, but give us the insult now: I just got a Jewish Asiatic mexican lesbian with African origins to deal with right now.

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• FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Can someone expand these asterisks?

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• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Derrick’s “Spelling Bee” suggests cell D3 should be dominant.

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