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Semantic coordinates analysis reveals language changes in the AI field
Zining Zhu, Yang Xu, Frank Rudzicz
Semantic shifts can reflect changes in beliefs across hundreds of years, but it is less clear whether trends in fast-changing communities across a short time can be detected. We pr…
Inferring symmetry in natural language
Chelsea Tanchip, Lei Yu, Aotao Xu +1
We present a methodological framework for inferring symmetry of verb predicates in natural language. Empirical work on predicate symmetry has taken two main approaches. The feature…
Word class flexibility: A deep contextualized approach
Bai Li, Guillaume Thomas, Yang Xu +1
Word class flexibility refers to the phenomenon whereby a single word form is used across different grammatical categories. Extensive work in linguistic typology has sought to char…
Contextualized moral inference
Jing Yi Xie, Graeme Hirst, Yang Xu
Developing moral awareness in intelligent systems has shifted from a topic of philosophical inquiry to a critical and practical issue in artificial intelligence over the past decad…
The Typology of Polysemy: A Multilingual Distributional Framework
Ella Rabinovich, Yang Xu, Suzanne Stevenson
Lexical semantic typology has identified important cross-linguistic generalizations about the variation and commonalities in polysemy patterns---how languages package up meanings i…
Corpus of Chinese Dynastic Histories: Gender Analysis over Two Millennia
Sergey Zinin, Yang Xu
Chinese dynastic histories form a large continuous linguistic space of approximately 2000 years, from the 3rd century BCE to the 18th century CE. The histories are documented in Cl…
A Computational Investigation on Denominalization
Zahra Shekarchi, Yang Xu
Language has been a dynamic system and word meanings always have been changed over times. Every time a novel concept or sense is introduced, we need to assign it a word to express…
Text-based inference of moral sentiment change
Jing Yi Xie, Renato Ferreira Pinto, Graeme Hirst +1
We present a text-based framework for investigating moral sentiment change of the public via longitudinal corpora. Our framework is based on the premise that language use can infor…