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title = "Measuring Diachronic Evolution of Evaluative Adjectives with Word Embeddings: the Case for {E}nglish, {N}orwegian, and {R}ussian",
author = "Rodina, Julia and
Bakshandaeva, Daria and
Fomin, Vadim and
Kutuzov, Andrey and
Touileb, Samia and
Velldal, Erik",
editor = "Tahmasebi, Nina and
Borin, Lars and
Jatowt, Adam and
Xu, Yang",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change",
month = aug,
year = "2019",
address = "Florence, Italy",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W19-4725",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-4725",
pages = "202--209",
abstract = "We measure the intensity of diachronic semantic shifts in adjectives in English, Norwegian and Russian across 5 decades. This is done in order to test the hypothesis that evaluative adjectives are more prone to temporal semantic change. To this end, 6 different methods of quantifying semantic change are used. Frequency-controlled experimental results show that, depending on the particular method, evaluative adjectives either do not differ from other types of adjectives in terms of semantic change or appear to actually be less prone to shifting (particularly, to {`}jitter{'}-type shifting). Thus, in spite of many well-known examples of semantically changing evaluative adjectives (like {`}terrific{'} or {`}incredible{'}), it seems that such cases are not specific to this particular type of words.",
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%A Kutuzov, Andrey
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%Y Jatowt, Adam
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Markdown (Informal)
[Measuring Diachronic Evolution of Evaluative Adjectives with Word Embeddings: the Case for English, Norwegian, and Russian](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4725) (Rodina et al., LChange 2019)
ACL
- Julia Rodina, Daria Bakshandaeva, Vadim Fomin, Andrey Kutuzov, Samia Touileb, and Erik Velldal. 2019. Measuring Diachronic Evolution of Evaluative Adjectives with Word Embeddings: the Case for English, Norwegian, and Russian. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, pages 202–209, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.