slang.gr as a Large-Scale Crowdsourced Resource for Non-Standard Greek

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21255v1
• Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:27:18 GMT
• Title: slang.gr as a Large-Scale Crowdsourced Resource for Non-Standard Greek
• Abstract summary: We present the first large-scale computational study of slang.gr, a crowdsourced lexicon of Greek non-standard language.<n>We map noisy folksonomic tags to a structured multi-layer taxonomy capturing both semantic categories and sociolinguistic metadata.<n>We find that slang is strongly centered on person-related and evaluative language, exhibits high morphological creativity, and is shaped by highly skewed participation with short user lifespans.
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• Abstract: Slang is a central component of everyday language, reflecting linguistic creativity, social identity, and cultural change, yet its dy- namic and non-standard nature makes it difficult to model computationally. We present the first large-scale computational study of slang.gr, a crowdsourced lexicon of Greek non-standard language, combining lexical content, user-generated tags, and interaction data. To enable the systematic analysis, we map noisy folksonomic tags to a structured multi-layer taxonomy capturing both semantic categories and sociolinguistic metadata. Using this representation, we analyze the linguistic structure of Greek slang and the behavior of its contributor community. We find that slang is strongly centered on person-related and evaluative language, exhibits high morphological creativity, and is shaped by highly skewed participation with short user lifespans and overlapping communities. Building on these signals, we introduce a community-based confidence score for definitions that integrates user roles, interaction patterns, and moderation signals. Our results show that taxonomy-based representations improve interpretability while retaining meaningful aspects of behavioral structure, enabling a more structured and interpretable analysis of confidence signals. Overall, this work establishes slang.gr as a computational resource for non-standard Greek and provides a foundation for sociolinguistic NLP, bias analysis, and the study of informal language in LLMs.

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