All bark and no bite: Rogue dimensions in transformer language models obscure representational quality

W Timkey, M Van Schijndel - arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.04404, 2021 - arxiv.org
Similarity measures are a vital tool for understanding how language models represent and
process language. Standard representational similarity measures such as cosine similarity …

Time masking for temporal language models

GD Rosin, I Guy, K Radinsky - … conference on Web search and data …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Our world is constantly evolving, and so is the content on the web. Consequently, our
languages, often said to mirror the world, are dynamic in nature. However, most current …

Temporal attention for language models

GD Rosin, K Radinsky - arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.02093, 2022 - arxiv.org
Pretrained language models based on the transformer architecture have shown great
success in NLP. Textual training data often comes from the web and is thus tagged with time …

Simple, interpretable and stable method for detecting words with usage change across corpora

H Gonen, G Jawahar, D Seddah… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The problem of comparing two bodies of text and searching for words that differ in their
usage between them arises often in digital humanities and computational social science …

Scalable and interpretable semantic change detection

S Montariol, M Martinc… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
Several cluster-based methods for semantic change detection with contextual embeddings
emerged recently. They allow a fine-grained analysis of word use change by aggregating …

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 …

Dynamic contextualized word embeddings

V Hofmann, JB Pierrehumbert, H Schütze - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Static word embeddings that represent words by a single vector cannot capture the
variability of word meaning in different linguistic and extralinguistic contexts. Building on …

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 …

Survey of computational approaches to lexical semantic change detection

N Tahmasebi, L Borin, A Jatowt - Computational approaches to …, 2021 - books.google.com
The findings from automatic lexical semantic change detection and the models of diachronic
conceptual change are also currently being incorporated in approaches for measuring …

Capturing evolution in word usage: Just add more clusters?

M Martinc, S Montariol, E Zosa… - Companion Proceedings of …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The way the words are used evolves through time, mirroring cultural or technological
evolution of society. Semantic change detection is the task of detecting and analysing word …