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Computational valency lexica and Homeric formularity
Barbara McGillivray, Martina Astrid Rodda
Distributional semantics, the quantitative study of meaning variation and change through corpus collocations, is currently one of the most productive research areas in computationa…
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…
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…