Understanding Interpretation Difficulty in Harmful Online Communication: Insights from Cybercrime Communities

arXiv:2607.07277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 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)...