358 citations · 441 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for
15 papers
DUKweb: Diachronic word representations from the UK Web Archive corpus
Adam Tsakalidis, Pierpaolo Basile, Marya Bazzi +2
Lexical semantic change (detecting shifts in the meaning and usage of words) is an important task for social and cultural studies as well as for Natural Language Processing applica…
Semantic Journeys: Quantifying Change in Emoji Meaning from 2012-2018
Alexander Robertson, Farhana Ferdousi Liza, Dong Nguyen +2
The semantics of emoji has, to date, been considered from a static perspective. We offer the first longitudinal study of how emoji semantics changes over time, applying techniques…
DWUG: A large Resource of Diachronic Word Usage Graphs in Four Languages
Dominik Schlechtweg, Nina Tahmasebi, Simon Hengchen +2
Word meaning is notoriously difficult to capture, both synchronically and diachronically. In this paper, we describe the creation of the largest resource of graded contextualized,…
Lexical semantic change for Ancient Greek and Latin
Valerio Perrone, Simon Hengchen, Marco Palma +3
Change and its precondition, variation, are inherent in languages. Over time, new words enter the lexicon, others become obsolete, and existing words acquire new senses. Associatin…
SemEval-2020 Task 1: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change Detection
Dominik Schlechtweg, Barbara McGillivray, Simon Hengchen +2
Lexical Semantic Change detection, i.e., the task of identifying words that change meaning over time, is a very active research area, with applications in NLP, lexicography, and li…
Analyzing Temporal Relationships between Trending Terms on Twitter and Urban Dictionary Activity
Steven R. Wilson, Walid Magdy, Barbara McGillivray +1
As an online, crowd-sourced, open English-language slang dictionary, the Urban Dictionary platform contains a wealth of opinions, jokes, and definitions of terms, phrases, acronyms…
Living Machines: A study of atypical animacy
Mariona Coll Ardanuy, Federico Nanni, Kaspar Beelen +7
This paper proposes a new approach to animacy detection, the task of determining whether an entity is represented as animate in a text. In particular, this work is focused on atypi…
The citation advantage of linking publications to research data
Giovanni Colavizza, Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Isla Staden +2
Efforts to make research results open and reproducible are increasingly reflected by journal policies encouraging or mandating authors to provide data availability statements. As a…
GASC: Genre-Aware Semantic Change for Ancient Greek
Valerio Perrone, Marco Palma, Simon Hengchen +3
Word meaning changes over time, depending on linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. Associating a word's correct meaning in its historical context is a central challenge in diach…
The relationship between usage and citations in an open access mega journal
Barbara McGillivray, Mathias Astell
How do the level of usage of an article, the timeframe of its usage and its subject area relate to the number of citations it accrues? This paper aims to answer this question throu…
Extracting Keywords from Open-Ended Business Survey Questions
Barbara McGillivray, Gard Jenset, Dominik Heil
Open-ended survey data constitute an important basis in research as well as for making business decisions. Collecting and manually analysing free-text survey data is generally more…
Uptake and outcome of manuscripts in Nature journals by review model and author characteristics
Barbara McGillivray, Elisa De Ranieri
Double-blind peer review has been proposed as a possible solution to avoid implicit referee bias in academic publishing. The aims of this study are to analyse the demographics of c…
Pilot study for the COST Action "Reassembling the Republic of Letters": language-driven network analysis of letters from the Hartlib's Papers
Barbara McGillivray, Federico Sangati
The present report summarizes an exploratory study which we carried out in the context of the COST Action IS1310 "Reassembling the Republic of Letters, 1500-1800", and which is rel…
Emo, Love, and God: Making Sense of Urban Dictionary, a Crowd-Sourced Online Dictionary
Dong Nguyen, Barbara McGillivray, Taha Yasseri
The Internet facilitates large-scale collaborative projects and the emergence of Web 2.0 platforms, where producers and consumers of content unify, has drastically changed the info…
A probabilistic algorithm for the secant defect of Grassmann varieties
Barbara McGillivray
In this paper we study the higher secant varieties of Grassmann varieties in relation to Waring's problem for alternating tensors and to Alexander-Hirschowitz theorem. We show how…