CodedLang: 7,744 Chinese reviews benchmark shows strong LLMs fail at coded language

windx0303 · x · 2026-10-24

ACL 2026 paper introduces CodedLang, a dataset of 7,744 real-world Chinese Google Maps reviews with span-level annotations (900 coded reviews) and a seven-class taxonomy of encoding strategies (phonetic, orthographic, cross-lingual). Benchmarks on detection, classification, and rating prediction show even strong models struggle to decode coded language; phonetic analysis included. Code and dataset are public.

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