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Cultural Shift or Linguistic Drift? Comparing Two Computational Measures of Semantic Change
William L. Hamilton, Jure Leskovec, Dan Jurafsky
Words shift in meaning for many reasons, including cultural factors like new technologies and regular linguistic processes like subjectification. Understanding the evolution of lan…
Inducing Domain-Specific Sentiment Lexicons from Unlabeled Corpora
William L. Hamilton, Kevin Clark, Jure Leskovec +1
A word's sentiment depends on the domain in which it is used. Computational social science research thus requires sentiment lexicons that are specific to the domains being studied.…
Diachronic Word Embeddings Reveal Statistical Laws of Semantic Change
William L. Hamilton, Jure Leskovec, Dan Jurafsky
Understanding how words change their meanings over time is key to models of language and cultural evolution, but historical data on meaning is scarce, making theories hard to devel…