A survey on contextualised semantic shift detection

S Montanelli, F Periti - arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.01666, 2023 - arxiv.org
Semantic Shift Detection (SSD) is the task of identifying, interpreting, and assessing the
possible change over time in the meanings of a target word. Traditionally, SSD has been …

LSCDiscovery: A shared task on semantic change discovery and detection in Spanish

FD Zamora-Reina, F Bravo-Marquez… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We present the first shared task on semantic change discovery and detection in Spanish and
create the first dataset of Spanish words manually annotated for semantic change using the …

Lexical Semantic Change through Large Language Models: a Survey

F Periti, S Montanelli - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Lexical Semantic Change (LSC) is the task of identifying, interpreting, and assessing the
possible change over time in the meanings of a target word. Traditionally, LSC has been …

A systematic comparison of contextualized word embeddings for lexical semantic change

F Periti, N Tahmasebi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.12011, 2024 - arxiv.org
Contextualized embeddings are the preferred tool for modeling Lexical Semantic Change
(LSC). Current evaluations typically focus on a specific task known as Graded Change …

AXOLOTL'24 Shared Task on Multilingual Explainable Semantic Change Modeling

M Fedorova, T Mickus, N Partanen, J Siewert… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper describes the organization and findings of AXOLOTL'24, the first multilingual
explainable semantic change modeling shared task. We present new sense-annotated …

Studying word meaning evolution through incremental semantic shift detection

F Periti, S Picascia, S Montanelli, A Ferrara… - Language Resources …, 2024 - Springer
The study of semantic shift, that is, of how words change meaning as a consequence of
social practices, events and political circumstances, is relevant in Natural Language …

Sense through time: diachronic word sense annotations for word sense induction and Lexical Semantic Change Detection

D Schlechtweg, FD Zamora-Reina… - Language Resources …, 2024 - Springer
There has been extensive work on human word sense annotation, ie, manually labeling
word uses in natural texts according to their senses. Such labels were primarily created for …

Methodological insights in detecting subtle semantic shifts with contextualized and static language models

S Hoeken, Ö Alaçam, A Fokkens… - Findings of the …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
In this paper, we investigate automatic detection of subtle semantic shifts between social
communities of different political convictions in Dutch and English. We perform a …

Detection of Non-recorded Word Senses in English and Swedish

J Lautenschlager, E Sköldberg, S Hengchen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This study addresses the task of Unknown Sense Detection in English and Swedish. The
primary objective of this task is to determine whether the meaning of a particular word usage …

Deep-change at AXOLOTL-24: Orchestrating WSD and WSI models for semantic change modeling

D Kokosinskii, M Kuklin, N Arefyev - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.05184, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper describes our solution of the first subtask from the AXOLOTL-24 shared task on
Semantic Change Modeling. The goal of this subtask is to distribute a given set of usages of …