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AbstractThe meanings of words are not fixed but in fact undergo change, with new word senses arising and established senses taking on new aspects of meaning or falling out of …...

Words shift in meaning for many reasons, including cultural factors like new technolo- gies and regular linguistic processes like sub- jectification. Understanding the evolution of language and culture requires disentangling …...

Understanding how words change their meanings over time is key to models of language and cultural evolution, but his- torical data on meaning is scarce, mak- ing theories hard to …...

AbstractWe present a qualitative analysis of the (potentially erroneous) outputs of contextualized embedding-based methods for detecting diachronic semantic change. First, we introduce an ensemble method outperforming previously described contextualized approaches. …...

This paper explores semantic change simply using the Ngram information, with the intu- ition that Ngrams as the direct neighbors offer collocation cues that further signal meaning changes. We specifically …...

AbstractThis article revisits statistical relationships across Romance cognates between lexical semantic shift and six intra-linguistic variables, such as frequency and polysemy. Cognates are words that are derived from a common …...

AbstractLanguages are continuously undergoing changes, and the mechanisms that underlie these changes are still a matter of debate. In this work, we approach language evolution through the lens of causality …...