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author = "Tat, Bach Phan and
Heylen, Kris and
De Pascale, Stefano and
Geeraerts, Dirk and
Speelman, Dirk",
editor = "Mohammad, Saif M. and
Ousidhoum, Nedjma",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 15th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*{SEM} 2026)",
month = jul,
year = "2026",
address = "San Diego, California, United States",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
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pages = "83--97",
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%T ReFRAME or Remain: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change Detection with Frame Semantics
%A Tat, Bach Phan
%A Heylen, Kris
%A De Pascale, Stefano
%A Geeraerts, Dirk
%A Speelman, Dirk
%Y Mohammad, Saif M.
%Y Ousidhoum, Nedjma
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%D 2026
%8 July
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%F tat-etal-2026-reframe
%X The majority of contemporary computational methods for lexical semantic change (LSC) detection are based on neural embedding distributional representations. Although these models perform well on LSC benchmarks, their results are often difficult to interpret. We explore an alternative approach that relies solely on frame semantics. We show that this method is effective for detecting semantic change and can even outperform many distributional semantic models. Finally, we present a detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis of its predictions, demonstrating that they are both plausible and highly interpretable.
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%P 83-97
Markdown (Informal)
[ReFRAME or Remain: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change Detection with Frame Semantics](https://aclanthology.org/2026.starsem-conference.5/) (Tat et al., *SEM 2026)
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