A state-of-the-art of semantic change computation

X Tang - Natural Language Engineering, 2018 - cambridge.org
This paper reviews the state-of-the-art of one emergent field in computational linguistics—
semantic change computation. It summarizes the literature by proposing a framework that …

Time-aware language models as temporal knowledge bases

B Dhingra, JR Cole, JM Eisenschlos… - Transactions of the …, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
Many facts come with an expiration date, from the name of the President to the basketball
team Lebron James plays for. However, most language models (LMs) are trained on …

Diachronic word embeddings reveal statistical laws of semantic change

WL Hamilton, J Leskovec, D Jurafsky - arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.09096, 2016 - arxiv.org
Understanding how words change their meanings over time is key to models of language
and cultural evolution, but historical data on meaning is scarce, making theories hard to …

Diachronic word embeddings and semantic shifts: a survey

A Kutuzov, L Øvrelid, T Szymanski, E Velldal - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Recent years have witnessed a surge of publications aimed at tracing temporal changes in
lexical semantics using distributional methods, particularly prediction-based word …

Statistically significant detection of linguistic change

V Kulkarni, R Al-Rfou, B Perozzi, S Skiena - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
We propose a new computational approach for tracking and detecting statistically significant
linguistic shifts in the meaning and usage of words. Such linguistic shifts are especially …

Dynamic word embeddings for evolving semantic discovery

Z Yao, Y Sun, W Ding, N Rao, H Xiong - … on web search and data mining, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Word evolution refers to the changing meanings and associations of words throughout time,
as a byproduct of human language evolution. By studying word evolution, we can infer …

[HTML][HTML] Cultural shift or linguistic drift? comparing two computational measures of semantic change

WL Hamilton, J Leskovec, D Jurafsky - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Words shift in meaning for many reasons, including cultural factors like new
technologies and regular linguistic processes like subjectification. Understanding the …

Temporal analysis of language through neural language models

Y Kim, YI Chiu, K Hanaki, D Hegde, S Petrov - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2014 - arxiv.org
We provide a method for automatically detecting change in language across time through a
chronologically trained neural language model. We train the model on the Google Books …

Dynamic embeddings for language evolution

M Rudolph, D Blei - Proceedings of the 2018 world wide web conference, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Word embeddings are a powerful approach for unsupervised analysis of language.
Recently, Rudolph et al. developed exponential family embeddings, which cast word …

Outta control: Laws of semantic change and inherent biases in word representation models

H Dubossarsky, D Weinshall… - Proceedings of the 2017 …, 2017 - aclanthology.org
This article evaluates three proposed laws of semantic change. Our claim is that in order to
validate a putative law of semantic change, the effect should be observed in the genuine …