DWUGs-IT: Extending and Standardizing Lexical Semantic Change Detection for Italian

Pierluigi Cassotti, Pierpaolo Basile, Nina Tahmasebi


Abstract
Lexical Semantic Change Detection (LSCD) is the task of determining whether a word has undergone a change in meaning over time. There has been a marked increase in interest in this task, accompanied by a corresponding growth in the scientific community involved in developing computational approaches to semantic change. In recent years, a number of resources have been made available for the evaluation of LSC models in a number of languages, including English, Swedish, German, Latin, Russian and Chinese. DIACR-ITA is the only existing resource for LSCD in Italian. However, DIACR-ITA has a different format from that used for other languages. In this paper we present DWUGs-IT, which extends the DIACR-ITA dataset with additional target words and usage-sense pair annotations and adapts it to the DURel format, including the first implementation of a LSCD graded task for Italian.
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2024.clicit-1.23
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Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024)
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December
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2024
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Pisa, Italy
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Felice Dell'Orletta, Alessandro Lenci, Simonetta Montemagni, Rachele Sprugnoli
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CEUR Workshop Proceedings
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Pierluigi Cassotti, Pierpaolo Basile, and Nina Tahmasebi. 2024. DWUGs-IT: Extending and Standardizing Lexical Semantic Change Detection for Italian. In Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024), pages 190–197, Pisa, Italy. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
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