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20162023
most citedSimulating Lexical Semantic Change from Sense-Annotated Data

15 citations · 41 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.CL2023

Made of Steel? Learning Plausible Materials for Components in the Vehicle Repair Domain

Annerose Eichel, Helena Schlipf, Sabine Schulte im Walde

We propose a novel approach to learn domain-specific plausible materials for components in the vehicle repair domain by probing Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) in a cloze task st…

cs.CL2022

What Drives the Use of Metaphorical Language? Negative Insights from Abstractness, Affect, Discourse Coherence and Contextualized Word Representations

Prisca Piccirilli, Sabine Schulte im Walde

Given a specific discourse, which discourse properties trigger the use of metaphorical language, rather than using literal alternatives? For example, what drives people to say "gra…

cs.CL2022

Features of Perceived Metaphoricity on the Discourse Level: Abstractness and Emotionality

Prisca Piccirilli, Sabine Schulte im Walde

Research on metaphorical language has shown ties between abstractness and emotionality with regard to metaphoricity; prior work is however limited to the word and sentence levels,…

cs.CL2021

Lexical Semantic Change Discovery

Sinan Kurtyigit, Maike Park, Dominik Schlechtweg +2

While there is a large amount of research in the field of Lexical Semantic Change Detection, only few approaches go beyond a standard benchmark evaluation of existing models. In th…

cs.CL2021

More than just Frequency? Demasking Unsupervised Hypernymy Prediction Methods

Thomas Bott, Dominik Schlechtweg, Sabine Schulte im Walde

This paper presents a comparison of unsupervised methods of hypernymy prediction (i.e., to predict which word in a pair of words such as fish-cod is the hypernym and which the hypo…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Explaining and Improving BERT Performance on Lexical Semantic Change Detection

Severin Laicher, Sinan Kurtyigit, Dominik Schlechtweg +2

Type- and token-based embedding architectures are still competing in lexical semantic change detection. The recent success of type-based models in SemEval-2020 Task 1 has raised th…

cs.CL2020★ 2 cited

CL-IMS @ DIACR-Ita: Volente o Nolente: BERT does not outperform SGNS on Semantic Change Detection

Severin Laicher, Gioia Baldissin, Enrique Castañeda +2

We present the results of our participation in the DIACR-Ita shared task on lexical semantic change detection for Italian. We exploit Average Pairwise Distance of token-based BERT…

cs.CL2020

OP-IMS @ DIACR-Ita: Back to the Roots: SGNS+OP+CD still rocks Semantic Change Detection

Jens Kaiser, Dominik Schlechtweg, Sabine Schulte im Walde

We present the results of our participation in the DIACR-Ita shared task on lexical semantic change detection for Italian. We exploit one of the earliest and most influential seman…

cs.CL2020

IMS at SemEval-2020 Task 1: How low can you go? Dimensionality in Lexical Semantic Change Detection

Jens Kaiser, Dominik Schlechtweg, Sean Papay +1

We present the results of our system for SemEval-2020 Task 1 that exploits a commonly used lexical semantic change detection model based on Skip-Gram with Negative Sampling. Our sy…

cs.CL2020★ 15 cited

Simulating Lexical Semantic Change from Sense-Annotated Data

Dominik Schlechtweg, Sabine Schulte im Walde

We present a novel procedure to simulate lexical semantic change from synchronic sense-annotated data, and demonstrate its usefulness for assessing lexical semantic change detectio…

cs.CL2019★ 2 cited

You Shall Know a User by the Company It Keeps: Dynamic Representations for Social Media Users in NLP

Marco Del Tredici, Diego Marcheggiani, Sabine Schulte im Walde +1

Information about individuals can help to better understand what they say, particularly in social media where texts are short. Current approaches to modelling social media users pa…

cs.CL2019★ 5 cited

A Wind of Change: Detecting and Evaluating Lexical Semantic Change across Times and Domains

Dominik Schlechtweg, Anna Hätty, Marco del Tredici +1

We perform an interdisciplinary large-scale evaluation for detecting lexical semantic divergences in a diachronic and in a synchronic task: semantic sense changes across time, and…

cs.CL2019

Second-order Co-occurrence Sensitivity of Skip-Gram with Negative Sampling

Dominik Schlechtweg, Cennet Oguz, Sabine Schulte im Walde

We simulate first- and second-order context overlap and show that Skip-Gram with Negative Sampling is similar to Singular Value Decomposition in capturing second-order co-occurrenc…

cs.CL2018★ 11 cited

Projecting Embeddings for Domain Adaptation: Joint Modeling of Sentiment Analysis in Diverse Domains

Jeremy Barnes, Roman Klinger, Sabine Schulte im Walde

Domain adaptation for sentiment analysis is challenging due to the fact that supervised classifiers are very sensitive to changes in domain. The two most prominent approaches to th…

cs.CL2018

Bilingual Sentiment Embeddings: Joint Projection of Sentiment Across Languages

Jeremy Barnes, Roman Klinger, Sabine Schulte im Walde

Sentiment analysis in low-resource languages suffers from a lack of annotated corpora to estimate high-performing models. Machine translation and bilingual word embeddings provide…

cs.CL2018

Introducing two Vietnamese Datasets for Evaluating Semantic Models of (Dis-)Similarity and Relatedness

Kim Anh Nguyen, Sabine Schulte im Walde, Ngoc Thang Vu

We present two novel datasets for the low-resource language Vietnamese to assess models of semantic similarity: ViCon comprises pairs of synonyms and antonyms across word classes,…

cs.CL2018★ 4 cited

Diachronic Usage Relatedness (DURel): A Framework for the Annotation of Lexical Semantic Change

Dominik Schlechtweg, Sabine Schulte im Walde, Stefanie Eckmann

We propose a framework that extends synchronic polysemy annotation to diachronic changes in lexical meaning, to counteract the lack of resources for evaluating computational models…

cs.CL2018★ 1 cited

Distribution-based Prediction of the Degree of Grammaticalization for German Prepositions

Dominik Schlechtweg, Sabine Schulte im Walde

We test the hypothesis that the degree of grammaticalization of German prepositions correlates with their corpus-based contextual dispersion measured by word entropy. We find that…

cs.CL2017

Assessing State-of-the-Art Sentiment Models on State-of-the-Art Sentiment Datasets

Jeremy Barnes, Roman Klinger, Sabine Schulte im Walde

There has been a good amount of progress in sentiment analysis over the past 10 years, including the proposal of new methods and the creation of benchmark datasets. In some papers,…

cs.CL2017

Hierarchical Embeddings for Hypernymy Detection and Directionality

Kim Anh Nguyen, Maximilian Köper, Sabine Schulte im Walde +1

We present a novel neural model HyperVec to learn hierarchical embeddings for hypernymy detection and directionality. While previous embeddings have shown limitations on prototypic…

cs.CL2017

German in Flux: Detecting Metaphoric Change via Word Entropy

Dominik Schlechtweg, Stefanie Eckmann, Enrico Santus +2

This paper explores the information-theoretic measure entropy to detect metaphoric change, transferring ideas from hypernym detection to research on language change. We also build…

cs.CL2016

Integrating Distributional Lexical Contrast into Word Embeddings for Antonym-Synonym Distinction

Kim Anh Nguyen, Sabine Schulte im Walde, Ngoc Thang Vu

We propose a novel vector representation that integrates lexical contrast into distributional vectors and strengthens the most salient features for determining degrees of word simi…