Cross-lingual Lexical Semantic Change in Romance Languages

Ana Sabina Uban; Liviu P. Dinu; Anca Dinu; Simona Georgescu

Cross-lingual Lexical Semantic Change in Romance Languages

Ana Sabina Uban, Liviu P Dinu, Anca Daniela Dinu, Simona Georgescu

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We present a comprehensive quantitative analysis of lexical semantic change in the five main Romance languages (Romanian, Italian, Spanish, French and Portuguese), based on the most exhaustive database of related words in these languages. We include both cognate words and borrowings (for the first time, to our knowledge), and compute semantic shift measures using different static and contextual embedding models, as well as three different corpora. We publish the obtained lists of semantic divergences across all related word pairs, compute global trends in language-level semantic divergence, and provide insights on particular study cases of highly stable and highly divergent words for different language pairs.

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Volume:: The Proceedings for the 6th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Change (LChange’26)
Month:: March
Year:: 2026
Address:: Rabat, Morocco
Editors:: Nina Tahmasebi, Pierluigi Cassotti, Syrielle Montariol, Andrey Kutuzov, Netta Huebscher, Elena Spaziani, Naomi Baes
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Cite (ACL):: Ana Sabina Uban, Liviu P Dinu, Anca Daniela Dinu, and Simona Georgescu. 2026. Cross-lingual Lexical Semantic Change in Romance Languages. In The Proceedings for the 6th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Change (LChange’26), pages 35–49, Rabat, Morocco. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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[Cross-lingual Lexical Semantic Change in Romance Languages](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lchange-1.4/) (Uban et al., LChange 2026)

Cross-lingual Lexical Semantic Change in Romance Languages (Uban et al., LChange 2026)

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Ana Sabina Uban, Liviu P Dinu, Anca Daniela Dinu, and Simona Georgescu. 2026. Cross-lingual Lexical Semantic Change in Romance Languages. In The Proceedings for the 6th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Change (LChange’26), pages 35–49, Rabat, Morocco. Association for Computational Linguistics.