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Short-Term Meaning Shift: A Distributional Exploration
Marco Del Tredici, Raquel Fernández, Gemma Boleda
We present the first exploration of meaning shift over short periods of time in online communities using distributional representations. We create a small annotated dataset and use…
Semantic Variation in Online Communities of Practice
Marco Del Tredici, Raquel Fernández
We introduce a framework for quantifying semantic variation of common words in Communities of Practice and in sets of topic-related communities. We show that while some meaning shi…
The Road to Success: Assessing the Fate of Linguistic Innovations in Online Communities
Marco Del Tredici, Raquel Fernández
We investigate the birth and diffusion of lexical innovations in a large dataset of online social communities. We build on sociolinguistic theories and focus on the relation betwee…