A Wind of Change:Detecting and Evaluating Lexical Semantic Changeacross Times and Domains
Abstract
We perform an interdisciplinary large-scale
evaluation for detecting lexical semantic divergences in a diachronic and in a synchronic
task: semantic sense changes across time,
and semantic sense changes across domains.
Our work addresses the superficialness and
lack of comparison in assessing models of diachronic lexical change, by bringing together
and extending benchmark models on a common state-of-the-art evaluation task. In addition, we demonstrate that the same evaluation
task and modelling approaches can successfully be utilised for the synchronic detection of
domain-specific sense divergences in the field
of term extraction