This readme file contains information about taboo(-inducing) word lists
used in the experiments of the following paper.


REFERENCE

Alessandro Valitutti, Antoine Doucet, Jukka M. Toivanen, and Hannu
Toivonen: Computational Generation and Dissection of Lexical Replacement
Humor. Submitted to Natural Language Engineering. 2015.

If you use the word lists in your research, please cite the above paper
as the source of the words.


FILES

The files containing the word lists are

- connot.txt: 184 connotational taboo words
- tabind.txt: 514 taboo-inducing words


TABOO WORD CLASSES

Roughly speaking, 

- connotational taboo words are unspeakable words where the taboo is in
  the utterance itself

- taboo-inducing words are not taboos in themselves, but depending on
  their use they can induce taboo meanings.

Please, see the paper referenced above for further information about the
classification of taboo words.


ORIGINAL SOURCES

The taboo(-inducing) words were hand-picked from three sources:

(1) words used as funny autocorrections from 
http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com

(2) profanities from
http://www.urbandictionary.com http://onlineslangdictionary.com

(3) words related to sex, from the sexuality domain of WordNet-Domains,
cf. Magnini, B. and Cavaglia, G. (2000): Integrating Subject Field Codes
into WordNet. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on
Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2000), Athens, Greece.