semantic change
The Rationality of Semantic Change
... Specifically, I conduct a quantitative investi- gation of the manifestation of the principle of contrast (Paul, 1898; Br´eal, 1897; Clark, 1990; De Saussure, 1916) in semantic change with ab- stract terms. ...
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The Epistemic Goal of a Concept: Accounting for the Rationality of Semantic Change and Variation
... historical change in a term’s definition entails a change in its inferential role (but not necessarily the other way round), so that also on my account any change in a term’s definition is a ...
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Time Out: Temporal Referencing for Robust Modeling of Lexical Semantic Change
... Models of LSC Detection Computational ap- proaches to semantic change detection can be di- vided in different families: count-based semantic spaces (Sagi et al., 2009; Gulordava and Baroni, 2011) and ...
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Diachronic Usage Relatedness (DURel): A Framework for the Annotation of Lexical Semantic Change
... on semantic change, despite the growing interest and modeling efforts in the field of semantic change ...the semantic developments of their targets by a quasi-annotation procedure of ...
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Using Topic Salience and Connotational Drifts to Detect Candidates to Semantic Change
... Semantic change has mostly been studied by historical linguists and typically at the scale of ...study semantic change at a finer-grained level, the decade, making use of recent newspaper cor- ...
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Diachronic Word Embeddings Reveal Statistical Laws of Semantic Change
... words change their meanings over time is key to models of language and cultural evolution, but his- torical data on meaning is scarce, mak- ing theories hard to develop and ...quantifying semantic ...
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GASC: Genre Aware Semantic Change for Ancient Greek
... lexical semantic change is notoriously ...sense change (Schlechtweg et ...the change points of word ...and semantic change is so closely related to poly- semy that it is hard to ...
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Politeness induced semantic change: The case of quand même
... This article contributes to a growing body of theory that posits language-external, social factors as a primary motor in diachronic change. Politeness theory and the use of variationist approaches enable us to ...
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Mining the UK Web Archive for Semantic Change Detection
... Experiment 1 We split our data into two sets: (a) in our training set we use most of our data to learn the alignment of the word representations across two different years, by ensuring that none of the 65 words denoted ...
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A distributional similarity approach to the detection of semantic change in the Google Books Ngram corpus
... The change in such words, that are characterized by a significant growth in frequency (log-freq 0), is detected by the human judges, as well as by the similarity mea- ...no semantic change was ...
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Semantic Change and Emerging Tropes In a Large Corpus of New High German Poetry
... We constructed the largest poetry corpus to date and investigated distributional semantic change with different methods. With self-similarity, we can reconstruct literature period transitions and find that ...
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SEMANTIC CHANGE IN URDU: A SOCIO LINGUISTIC IMPACT ON LEXICAL BORROWING FROM ARABIC TO URDU
... the Semantic change, researches in the past suggest that meaning change in reanalysis is driven by a process: pragmatic inference and subsequent semanticization of the originally inferred information ...
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Sincerity and the moral reanalysis of politeness in late modern English: Semantic change and contingent polysemy
... the semantic change of sincerity; politeness shifts over time from referring to a mode of (honest) sociable interaction to a display of (genuinely felt) personal ...
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On the Linearity of Semantic Change: Investigating Meaning Variation via Dynamic Graph Models
... We consider two graph models of seman- tic change. The first is a time-series model that relates embedding vectors from one time period to embedding vectors of pre- vious time periods. In the second, we construct ...
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Cultural Shift or Linguistic Drift? Comparing Two Computational Measures of Semantic Change
... of semantic change. With the global measure of change, we measure how far a word has moved in semantic space between two ...entire semantic space ...of change, we measure changes ...
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Outta Control: Laws of Semantic Change and Inherent Biases in Word Representation Models
... proposed change in meaning is contingent on a particular model of word representation and the method used to mea- sure ...Distributional semantic models typi- cally count words and their co-occurrence ...
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Room to Glo: A Systematic Comparison of Semantic Change Detection Approaches with Word Embeddings
... A major challenge in developing semantic change detection systems is obtaining ground truth data (Kutuzov et al., 2018), which has so far pre- vented a systematic evaluation of different ap- proaches. Many ...
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Cognitive Systematicity of Semantic Change: Cross-Linguistic Evidence
... The word ‘silly’ according to OED, can be etymologically traced back to: Middle English sely, silly (happy), Old English s ǣ lig, from s ǣ l happiness; and this can be akin to Old High German sālig happy). This can be ...
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Semantic Change of the Selected Cebuano Words
... The data were taken from Bisaya, a Cebuano-Bisaya magazine issued in 2004 and 2005. Twenty (20) words were chosen (i.e. 10 words from the short stories and feature articles of the authors residing in Cebu province to ...
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Semantic Change in the Language of UK Parliamentary Debates
... mantic change in English, in general seem to ex- hibit similar behaviour in parliamentary ...undergo semantic change in Hansard during this ...hibit semantic change over time, they do ...
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