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title = "Understanding the Evolution of Circular Economy through Language Change",
author = "Mahanty, Sampriti and
Boons, Frank and
Handl, Julia and
Theresa Batista-Navarro, Riza",
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/W19-4731",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-4731",
pages = "250--253",
abstract = "In this study, we propose to focus on understanding the evolution of a specific scientific concept{---}that of Circular Economy (CE){---}by analysing how the language used in academic discussions has changed semantically. It is worth noting that the meaning and central theme of this concept has remained the same; however, we hypothesise that it has undergone semantic change by way of additional layers being added to the concept. We have shown that semantic change in language is a reflection of shifts in scientific ideas, which in turn help explain the evolution of a concept. Focusing on the CE concept, our analysis demonstrated that the change over time in the language used in academic discussions of CE is indicative of the way in which the concept evolved and expanded.",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Understanding the Evolution of Circular Economy through Language Change](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4731) (Mahanty et al., LChange 2019)
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