Language Change Detection

3rd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2022 (LChange'22)

LChange'22 is the third workshop for computational approaches to historical language change with the focus on digital text corpora. This year, the workshop will feature a shared task on semantic change detection for Spanish. Come join us for this …

2nd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2021 (LChange'21)

In this second LChange workshop, we will bring together the world's pioneers and experts in computational approaches to historical language change with the focus on digital text corpora. In doing so, this workshop carries the triple goals of …

SemEval-2020 Task 1: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change Detection

Lexical Semantic Change detection, i.e., the task of identifying words that change meaning over time, is a very active research area, with applications in NLP, lexicography, and linguistics. Evaluation is currently the most pressing problem in …

An introduction to lexical semantic change

In this talk I will give an overview of the work done in computational detection of semantic change over the past decade. I will present semantic change, and the impact it has on research in e.g., digital humanities. I will talk about the challenges …

2nd Workshop on Computational Detection of Language Change 2020

This second SLTC workshop on language change detection aims to bring together a community of researchers in Sweden that focus on different aspects of language change detection, both from a qualitative and manual as well as a quantitative, automatic …

Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change Detection – Past, Present & Future

In this talk, I will introduce lexical semantic change detection from a computational perspective. Often, the motivations for studying lexical semantic change differ between data science or NLP, and traditional studies in e.g., historical …

Turing workshop on automatic methods for lexical semantic change

In this workshop, we wish to foster discussions between Natural Language Processing researchers, (digital) humanists, and historical linguists on this rapidly evolving research area.

1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2019

In this workshop, we will bring together the world's pioneers and experts in computational approaches to historical language change with the focus on digital text corpora. In doing so, this workshop carries the triple goals of disseminating the …

Discovering Semantic Shifts Using Diachronic Word Sense Embeddings

Word embedding methods provide a simple and practical representation of lexical semantics that can be learned in an unsupervised fashion from unannotated corpora. The fact that these methods discover meaning representations automatically makes them …

On Lexical Semantic Change and Evaluation

In this talk I will give an overview of the work done in computational detection of semantic change over the past decade. I will present both lexical replacements and semantic change, and the impact these have on research in e.g., digital humanities. …