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SLAyiNG: A Diverse and Community-validated Dataset of Queer Slang

Leonor Veloso, Lea Hirlimann, Lucija Mihić Zidar, Philipp Wicke, Valentin Hofmann, Hinrich Schütze · Sep 22, 2025 · Citations: 0

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Abstract

Queer vernacular is rarely studied in NLP, despite advancements in resources and evaluation for other sociolects and informal language. Because of this, NLP systems often process queer language incorrectly, e.g., they misclassify it as hate speech or generate negative responses. To address this problem, we propose Slaying, the first real-world dataset of English queer slang. Slaying is community-validated, and includes over 500 queer slang terms that pertain to more than 20 queer subcommunities. We argue that queer language data resources have great potential in NLP -- e.g., as components of large pretraining corpora and as the basis for benchmarks -- and can improve queer users' experience of NLP systems. We leverage Slaying for two novel findings in support of this argument: (i) For a number of language models, we show that they are unbiased towards the queer community, but at the same time unable to process its language, i.e., absence of representation bias does not entail the absence of linguistic bias. (ii) Model performance on queer slang varies across queer subcommunities; it is generally worse for slang pertaining to African-American and Latine communities. These findings are relevant for both the queer NLP and the broader ML communities. Slaying is available to the public, and open to future revisions and extensions. Warning: This paper contains profane and potentially offensive language.

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Main weakness

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Usefulness score

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Human Feedback Signal

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Evaluation Signal

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"Queer vernacular is rarely studied in NLP, despite advancements in resources and evaluation for other sociolects and informal language."

Evaluation Modes

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"Queer vernacular is rarely studied in NLP, despite advancements in resources and evaluation for other sociolects and informal language."

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"Queer vernacular is rarely studied in NLP, despite advancements in resources and evaluation for other sociolects and informal language."

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"Queer vernacular is rarely studied in NLP, despite advancements in resources and evaluation for other sociolects and informal language."

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"Queer vernacular is rarely studied in NLP, despite advancements in resources and evaluation for other sociolects and informal language."

Human Feedback Details

  • Uses human feedback: Yes
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  • Expertise required: General

Evaluation Details

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  • Evidence quality: Low
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Protocol And Measurement Signals

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Research Brief

Metadata summary

Queer vernacular is rarely studied in NLP, despite advancements in resources and evaluation for other sociolects and informal language.

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Key Takeaways

  • Queer vernacular is rarely studied in NLP, despite advancements in resources and evaluation for other sociolects and informal language.
  • Because of this, NLP systems often process queer language incorrectly, e.g., they misclassify it as hate speech or generate negative responses.
  • To address this problem, we propose Slaying, the first real-world dataset of English queer slang.

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Contribution Summary

  • Queer vernacular is rarely studied in NLP, despite advancements in resources and evaluation for other sociolects and informal language.
  • To address this problem, we propose Slaying, the first real-world dataset of English queer slang.
  • We leverage Slaying for two novel findings in support of this argument: (i) For a number of language models, we show that they are unbiased towards the queer community, but at the same time unable to process its language, i.e., absence of…

Why It Matters For Eval

  • Queer vernacular is rarely studied in NLP, despite advancements in resources and evaluation for other sociolects and informal language.
  • We argue that queer language data resources have great potential in NLP -- e.g., as components of large pretraining corpora and as the basis for benchmarks -- and can improve queer users' experience of NLP systems.

Researcher Checklist

  • Pass: Human feedback protocol is explicit

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  • Gap: Evaluation mode is explicit

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  • Gap: Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Gap: Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

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