Jujeop: Korean Puns for K-pop Stars on Social Media

Soyoung Oh, Jisu Kim, Seungpeel Lee, Eunil Park

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Abstract

Jujeop is a way for K-pop fans to express their love for the K-pop stars they adore by creating a type of Korean pun through unique comments in Youtube videos that feature those Kpop stars. One of the unique characteristics of Jujeop is its use of exaggerated expressions to compliment K-pop stars, which contain or lead to humor. Based on this characteristic, Jujeop can be separated into four distinct types, with their own lexical collocations: (1) Fragmenting words to create a twist, (2) Homophones and homographs, (3) Repetition, and (4) Nonsense. Thus, the current study defines the concept of Jujeop and manually annotates the 8.6K comments into one of the four Jujeop types. With the given annotated corpus, this study presents distinctive characteristics of Jujeop comments compared to the other comments by classification task. Moreover, with the clustering approach, we proposed a structural dependency within each Jujeop type. We have made our dataset publicly available for future research of Jujeop expressions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSocialNLP 2021 - 9th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media, Proceedings of the Workshop
EditorsLun-Wei Ku, Cheng-Te Li
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages170-177
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781954085329
StatePublished - 2021
Event9th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media, SocialNLP 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 10 Jun 2021 → …

Publication series

NameSocialNLP 2021 - 9th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media, Proceedings of the Workshop

Conference

Conference9th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media, SocialNLP 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period10/06/21 → …

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