Blow the Dog Whistle: A Chinese Dataset for Cant Understanding with Common Sense and World Knowledge

Cant is important for understanding advertising, comedies and dog-whistle politics. However, computational research on cant is hindered by a lack of available datasets. In this paper, we propose a large and diverse Chinese dataset for creating and understanding cant from a computational linguistics perspective. We formulate a task for cant understanding and provide both quantitative and qualitative analysis for tested word embedding similarity and pretrained language models. Experiments suggest that such a task requires deep language understanding, common sense, and world knowledge and thus can be a good testbed for pretrained language models and help models perform better on other tasks.

Epidemiological Study on Domestic Feline Dermatophytosis in Hama

The present study was diagnosis and Treatment of dermatophytosis in Cats. Cases of Mycology Clinic were involved in this study: 58 cats, 1 mounth/4 years aged).Medical exams were: anamnesis, clinical examination and dermatological exam. Samples were collected from Skin scarping and hair from cats with clinical suspicion of dermatophytosis. From 58 Cats revaled 18 (31%)showed lesion with dermatophytosis.