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Noun2Verb: Probabilistic frame semantics for word class conversion
Lei Yu, Yang Xu
Humans can flexibly extend word usages across different grammatical classes, a phenomenon known as word class conversion. Noun-to-verb conversion, or denominal verb (e.g., to Googl…
Neural reality of argument structure constructions
Bai Li, Zining Zhu, Guillaume Thomas +2
In lexicalist linguistic theories, argument structure is assumed to be predictable from the meaning of verbs. As a result, the verb is the primary determinant of the meaning of a c…
HistBERT: A Pre-trained Language Model for Diachronic Lexical Semantic Analysis
Wenjun Qiu, Yang Xu
Contextualized word embeddings have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in various natural language processing tasks including those that concern historical semantic change.…
Predicting emergent linguistic compositions through time: Syntactic frame extension via multimodal chaining
Lei Yu, Yang Xu
Natural language relies on a finite lexicon to express an unbounded set of emerging ideas. One result of this tension is the formation of new compositions, such that existing lingu…
An unsupervised framework for tracing textual sources of moral change
Aida Ramezani, Zining Zhu, Frank Rudzicz +1
Morality plays an important role in social well-being, but people's moral perception is not stable and changes over time. Recent advances in natural language processing have shown…
Evolution of emotion semantics
Aotao Xu, Jennifer E. Stellar, Yang Xu
Humans possess the unique ability to communicate emotions through language. Although concepts like anger or awe are abstract, there is a shared consensus about what these English e…