Identification of domain-specific euphemistic tweets using clustering

Social media platforms (SMPs) are frequently utilised as a readily accessible and comprehensive medium for expressing personal opinions nowdays. The use of euphemism, a linguistic strategy in which the underlying feeling of expressive content is veiled by the use of mild language, has been a longtime practise in the realm of SMPs for the purpose of reducing harshness or to discuss sensitive topics [1]. The identification of masked contents [2] in euphemism is challenging due to their inherent nature. This study presents a proposed identification mechanism aimed at detecting domain-specific euphemisms through the utilisation of clustering techniques. The pattern categorization feature is created utilising domain-specific lexical features combined with frequency-based features. In order to identify the most suitable match, the hybrid feature extraction algorithms incorporate uni-gram and bi-gram features dependent on frequency based feature, in conjunction with a lexicon. The objective of the dimension reduction phase is to address the issue of sparsity and to identify the most significant words for each sample in order to classify them into different domains using centroid and density-based clustering techniques. The DBSCAN algorithm is employed with an epsilon value of 2.5 and a minimum number of points set to 6, resulting in the identification of 7 distinct clusters. To calculate the optimal value for k in the K-means algorithm, the Silhouette score is utilised. The clusters that were obtained are examined by manual means. We compare our model to FLUTE dataset with epsilon value of 0.2, minpoints of 5 for DBSCAN, and obtain validation score of 0.55. The DBSCAN clustering algorithm generates distinct clusters that extend beyond the scope of the inquiry domain. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Bharati Vidyapeeth's Institute of Computer Applications and Management.