3 papers
cs.CL2018
The Influence of Down-Sampling Strategies on SVD Word Embedding Stability
Johannes Hellrich, Bernd Kampe, Udo Hahn
The stability of word embedding algorithms, i.e., the consistency of the word representations they reveal when trained repeatedly on the same data set, has recently raised concerns…
cs.CL2018
JeSemE: A Website for Exploring Diachronic Changes in Word Meaning and Emotion
Johannes Hellrich, Sven Buechel, Udo Hahn
We here introduce a substantially extended version of JeSemE, an interactive website for visually exploring computationally derived time-variant information on word meanings and le…
cs.CL2018
Modeling Word Emotion in Historical Language: Quantity Beats Supposed Stability in Seed Word Selection
Johannes Hellrich, Sven Buechel, Udo Hahn
To understand historical texts, we must be aware that language -- including the emotional connotation attached to words -- changes over time. In this paper, we aim at estimating th…