Understanding Interpretation Difficulty in Harmful Online Communication: Insights from Cybercrime Communities
Harmful online communication often contains slang, coded terms, abbreviations, and community-specific expressions, which make messages difficult to interpret. This paper presents an exploratory study of interpretation difficulty in Discord chats related to cybercrime. We construct reference interpretations of purposefully selected difficult messages, which were reviewed by an expert. We then use them to evaluate human and large language model (LLM) interpretations under different context conditions. The results show that local context alone is often insufficient for humans, while external knowledge and extended conversational context substantially improve human interpretation. For LLMs, l...
| Authors | Tomohiro Okatsu, Naoki Takada, Yin Min Pa Pa et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 8 July 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 8 July 2026 |
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