The integration of semantic information into language resources has the potential to open up
new avenues of enquiry into the mechanisms of language change. We present the first …

The last years have seen the application of Natural Language Processing, in particular,
language models, to the study of the Semantics of ancient Greek, but only a little work has …

This paper stems from the project A World of Possibilities. Modal pathways over an extra-
long period of time: the diachrony of modality in the Latin language (WoPoss) which involves …

Diachronic analysis is one of the most intriguing and complex tasks in linguistic studies. The
interest in the task is well supported by the research on historical languages such as Latin …

In this article, we introduce a new framework, the Intensional–Ontological Model (IOM), for
representing meaning, and especially for representing semantic change, in linguistic linked …

Abstract In Late Latin, dolus 'deceit'expanded its semantic scope and took on the meanings
of dolor 'pain, suffering, grief, anguish'. This article lays out the literary and epigraphic …

This paper explores the possibility to exploit different Pretrained Language Models (PLMs)
to assist in a manual annotation task consisting in assigning the appropriate sense to verbal …

Recently, there has been a growing interest and numerous advances in computational and
quantitative approaches to research in semantic change (SC). However, the resources to …

Thanks to the growing availability of textual collections in digital form and the development
of new data-intensive methodologies from the computational sciences, there is now a …

The question of what words mean and how they come to have multiple meanings has
fascinated generations of linguists and philosophers. Some words are polysemous, ie, they …