Language Change Detection

Workshop on Lexical Semantic Change 2019

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. …

Workshop on Lexical Semantic Change

In this workshop, which takes place in the context of the DH research seminar series at the University of Helsinki, we wish to foster discussions on lexical semantic change, between NLP researchers, (digital) historians, and historical linguists. In …

Wp2: Semantic Change Detection

Computationally detecting diachronic changes in meaning

Wp3: Lexical Replacement

Computational detection of lexical replacements from diachronic texts.

Workshop on Automatic Detection of Language Change 2018

This 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 detection …

Estonian Digital Humanities Conference 2018

For the last decade, automatic detection of word sense change has primarily focused on detecting the main changes in meaning of a word. Most current methods rely on new, powerful embedding technologies, but do not differentiate between different …