A Wind of Change: Detecting and Evaluating Lexical Semantic Change across Times and Domains
Dominik Schlechtweg, Anna Hätty, Marco Tredici, Sabine Schulte im Walde
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 732–746, 2019.
Abstract
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 semantic sense changes across domains. Our work addresses the superficialness and lack of comparison in assessing models of diachronic lexical change, by bringing together and extending benchmark models on a common state-of-the-art evaluation task. In addition, we demonstrate that the same evaluation task and modelling approaches can successfully be utilised for the synchronic detection of domain-specific sense divergences in the field of term extraction.Links
doi: 10.18653/v1/P19-1072
BibTeX
@inproceedings{schlechtweg19_acl,
title = {A Wind of Change: Detecting and Evaluating Lexical Semantic Change across Times and Domains},
author = {Schlechtweg, Dominik and Hätty, Anna and del Tredici, Marco and {Schulte im Walde}, Sabine},
year = {2019},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
pages = {732–746},
doi = {10.18653/v1/P19-1072}
}