Tsakalidis, Adam, Bazzi, Marya, Cucuringu, Mihai, Basile, Pierpaolo and McGillivray, Barbara (2019) Mining the UK web archive for semantic change detection. In: Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP) 2019, Varna, Bulgaria, 2–4 Sep 2019. Published in: Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019) pp. 1212-1221. ISBN 9789544520557. doi:10.26615/978-954-452-056-4_139 ISSN 1313-8502.
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Abstract
Semantic change detection (i.e., identify- ing words whose meaning has changed over time) started emerging as a grow- ing area of research over the past decade, with important downstream applications in natural language processing, historical linguistics and computational social sci- ence. However, several obstacles make progress in the domain slow and diffi- cult. These pertain primarily to the lack of well-established gold standard datasets, resources to study the problem at a fine- grained temporal resolution, and quantita- tive evaluation approaches. In this work, we aim to mitigate these issues by (a) re- leasing a new labelled dataset of more than 47K word vectors trained on the UK Web Archive over a short time-frame (2000- 2013); (b) proposing a variant of Pro- crustes alignment to detect words that have undergone semantic shift; and (c) intro- ducing a rank-based approach for evalu- ation purposes. Through extensive nu- merical experiments and validation, we il- lustrate the effectiveness of our approach against competitive baselines. Finally, we also make our resources publicly available to further enable research in the domain.
| Item Type: | Conference Item (Paper) |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Mathematics |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Semantic Web, Semantic computing, Information technology -- Sociological aspects, Data mining -- Great Britain, Web archives -- Great Britain |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019) |
| Publisher: | INCOMA Ltd. |
| ISBN: | 9789544520557 |
| ISSN: | 1313-8502 |
| Official Date: | 22 October 2019 |
| Dates: | Date Event 22 October 2019 Published 6 July 2019 Accepted |
| Page Range: | pp. 1212-1221 |
| DOI: | 10.26615/978-954-452-056-4_139 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons open licence) |
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 30 October 2019 |
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 March 2021 |
| RIOXX Funder/Project Grant: | Project/Grant ID RIOXX Funder Name Funder ID EP/N510129/1 [EPSRC] Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Seed funding grant : SF099 [EPSRC] Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council |
| Conference Paper Type: | Paper |
| Title of Event: | Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP) 2019 |
| Type of Event: | Conference |
| Location of Event: | Varna, Bulgaria |
| Date(s) of Event: | 2–4 Sep 2019 |
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| URI: | https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/128469/ |
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