Lexical Change
Corpus approaches to changes in lexicons
In this project, we explore the way lexicons of languages change over time:
- Through the emergence of new words (Ryskina et al., 2020)
- Through the decline of existing words (Francis et al., 2021)
References
2021
- TACLQuantifying Cognitive Factors in Lexical DeclineTransactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
2020
- SCiLWhere New Words Are Born: Distributional Semantic Analysis of Neologisms and Their Semantic NeighborhoodsIn Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics