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title = "A Comparative Study of Static and Contextual Embeddings for Analyzing Semantic Changes in Medieval {L}atin Charters",
author = "Liu, Yifan and
Tilahun, Gelila and
Gao, Xinxiang and
Wen, Qianfeng and
Gervers, Michael",
editor = "Hettiarachchi, Hansi and
Ranasinghe, Tharindu and
Rayson, Paul and
Mitkov, Ruslan and
Gaber, Mohamed and
Premasiri, Damith and
Tan, Fiona Anting and
Uyangodage, Lasitha",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages",
month = jan,
year = "2025",
address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.loreslm-1.14/",
pages = "182--192",
abstract = "The Norman Conquest of 1066 C.E. brought profound transformations to England`s administrative, societal, and linguistic practices. The DEEDS (Documents of Early England Data Set) database offers a unique opportunity to explore these changes by examining shifts in word meanings within a vast collection of Medieval Latin charters. While computational linguistics typically relies on vector representations of words like static and contextual embeddings to analyze semantic changes, existing embeddings for scarce and historical Medieval Latin are limited and may not be well-suited for this task. This paper presents the first computational analysis of semantic change pre- and post-Norman Conquest and the first systematic comparison of static and contextual embeddings in a scarce historical data set. Our findings confirm that, consistent with existing studies, contextual embeddings outperform static word embeddings in capturing semantic change within a scarce historical corpus."
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%T A Comparative Study of Static and Contextual Embeddings for Analyzing Semantic Changes in Medieval Latin Charters
%A Liu, Yifan
%A Tilahun, Gelila
%A Gao, Xinxiang
%A Wen, Qianfeng
%A Gervers, Michael
%Y Hettiarachchi, Hansi
%Y Ranasinghe, Tharindu
%Y Rayson, Paul
%Y Mitkov, Ruslan
%Y Gaber, Mohamed
%Y Premasiri, Damith
%Y Tan, Fiona Anting
%Y Uyangodage, Lasitha
%S Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages
%D 2025
%8 January
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
%F liu-etal-2025-comparative
%X The Norman Conquest of 1066 C.E. brought profound transformations to England‘s administrative, societal, and linguistic practices. The DEEDS (Documents of Early England Data Set) database offers a unique opportunity to explore these changes by examining shifts in word meanings within a vast collection of Medieval Latin charters. While computational linguistics typically relies on vector representations of words like static and contextual embeddings to analyze semantic changes, existing embeddings for scarce and historical Medieval Latin are limited and may not be well-suited for this task. This paper presents the first computational analysis of semantic change pre- and post-Norman Conquest and the first systematic comparison of static and contextual embeddings in a scarce historical data set. Our findings confirm that, consistent with existing studies, contextual embeddings outperform static word embeddings in capturing semantic change within a scarce historical corpus.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.loreslm-1.14/
%P 182-192
Markdown (Informal)
[A Comparative Study of Static and Contextual Embeddings for Analyzing Semantic Changes in Medieval Latin Charters](https://aclanthology.org/2025.loreslm-1.14/) (Liu et al., LoResLM 2025)
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