Chris W. Jenkins


2024

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Visualising Changes in Semantic Neighbourhoods of English Noun Compounds over Time
Malak Rassem | Myrto Tsigkouli | Chris W. Jenkins | Filip Miletić | Sabine Schulte im Walde
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities

This paper provides a framework and tool set for computing and visualising dynamic, time- specific semantic neighbourhoods of English noun-noun compounds and their constituents over time. Our framework not only identifies salient vector-space dimensions and neighbours in notoriously sparse data: we specifically bring together changes in meaning aspects and degrees of (non-)compositionality.