358 citations · 441 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for
4 papers · 1 filter
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…