Zhizhong Chen

Are "Undocumented Workers" the Same as "Illegal Aliens"? Disentangling\n Denotation and Connotation in Vector Spaces

2020 · arXiv (Cornell University)

In politics, neologisms are frequently invented for partisan objectives. For\nexample, "undocumented workers" and "illegal aliens" refer to the same group of\npeople (i.e., they have the same denotation), but they carry clearly different\nconnotations. Examples like these …