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title = "Sequential Modelling of the Evolution of Word Representations for Semantic Change Detection",
author = "Tsakalidis, Adam and
Liakata, Maria",
editor = "Webber, Bonnie and
Cohn, Trevor and
He, Yulan and
Liu, Yang",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)",
month = nov,
year = "2020",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.682",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.682",
pages = "8485--8497",
abstract = "Semantic change detection concerns the task of identifying words whose meaning has changed over time. Current state-of-the-art approaches operating on neural embeddings detect the level of semantic change in a word by comparing its vector representation in two distinct time periods, without considering its evolution through time. In this work, we propose three variants of sequential models for detecting semantically shifted words, effectively accounting for the changes in the word representations over time. Through extensive experimentation under various settings with synthetic and real data we showcase the importance of sequential modelling of word vectors through time for semantic change detection. Finally, we compare different approaches in a quantitative manner, demonstrating that temporal modelling of word representations yields a clear-cut advantage in performance.",
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[Sequential Modelling of the Evolution of Word Representations for Semantic Change Detection](https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.682) (Tsakalidis & Liakata, EMNLP 2020)
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