Distributional semantics embodies the idea that the context in which a word occurs reveals
the meaning of that word. In contemporary corpus linguistics, that idea takes shape in …

The idea that ambiguity can be productive in data science remains controversial. Efforts to
make scientific publications and data intelligible to computers generally assume that …

Question answering (QA) and Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) tasks have
significantly advanced in recent years due to the rapid development of deep learning …

This paper describes the organization and findings of AXOLOTL'24, the first multilingual
explainable semantic change modeling shared task. We present new sense-annotated …

In this paper, we focus on the detection of semantic changes in Slovene, a less resourced
Slavic language with two million speakers. Detecting and tracking semantic changes …

We describe our two systems for the shared task on Lexical Semantic Change Discovery in
Spanish. For binary change detection, we frame the task as a word sense disambiguation …

This research examines the mechanisms of semantic change in English and German,
focusing on comparing and contrasting these processes across the two languages and …

Word embeddings have recently been applied to detect and explore changes in word
meaning on large historical corpora. While word embeddings are useful in many Natural …

In the recent years, word embedding models are being proposed to effectively detect
language change and semantic shift in diachronic corpora. In this paper, we present a …

Natural philosophy changed quickly during the early modern period (1600-1800).
Aristotelian philosophy was combated by Cartesian mechanicism, which was soon itself …