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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…