Editing WordNet (section)

=== Offensive content ===
WordNet includes words that can be perceived as [[pejorative]] or offensive.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wong |first=Julia Carrie |author-link=Julia Carrie Wong |date=2019-09-18 |title=The viral selfie app ImageNet Roulette seemed fun – until it called me a racist slur |url=http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/17/imagenet-roulette-asian-racist-slur-selfie |access-date=2022-10-14 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref> The interpretation of a word can [[Semantic change|change over time]] and [[In-group and out-group|between social groups]], so it is not always possible for WordNet to define a word as "[[pejorative]]" or "offensive" in isolation. Therefore, people using WordNet must apply their own methods to identify offensive or pejorative words.

However, this limitation is true of other lexical resources like [[dictionary|dictionaries]] and [[thesaurus]]es, which also contain [[pejorative]] and offensive words. Some dictionaries indicate words that are [[pejorative]]s, but do not include all the contexts in which words might be acceptable or offensive to different social groups. Therefore, people using dictionaries must apply their own methods to identify all offensive words.