Lexical semantic change through large language models: a survey

F Periti, S Montanelli - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Lexical Semantic Change (LSC) is the task of identifying, interpreting, and assessing the
possible change over time in the meanings of a target word. Traditionally, LSC has been …

Automatically Generated Definitions and their utility for Modeling Word Meaning

F Periti, D Alfter, N Tahmasebi - Proceedings of the 2024 …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
Modeling lexical semantics is a challenging task, often suffering from interpretability pitfalls.
In this paper, we delve into the generation of dictionary-like sense definitions and explore …

[PDF][PDF] Towards a complete solution to lexical semantic change: An extension to multiple time periods and diachronic word sense induction

F Periti, N Tahmasebi - Proceedings of the 5th workshop on …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
Thus far, the research community has focused on a simplified computational modeling of
semantic change between two time periods. This simplified view has served as a …

Studying word meaning evolution through incremental semantic shift detection

F Periti, S Picascia, S Montanelli, A Ferrara… - Language Resources …, 2024 - Springer
The study of semantic shift, that is, of how words change meaning as a consequence of
social practices, events and political circumstances, is relevant in Natural Language …

Concept drift adaptation in text stream mining settings: a systematic review

CM Garcia, R Abilio, AL Koerich, AS Britto Jr… - ACM Transactions on …, 2025 - dl.acm.org
The society produces textual data online in several ways, eg, via reviews and social media
posts. Therefore, numerous researchers have been working on discovering patterns in …

Exploring Robustness of Multilingual LLMs on Real-World Noisy Data

A Aliakbarzadeh, L Flek, A Karimi - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.08322, 2025 - arxiv.org
Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on Web data that might contain spelling errors
made by humans. But do they become robust to similar real-world noise? In this paper, we …

Analyzing Continuous Semantic Shifts with Diachronic Word Similarity Matrices

H Kiyama, T Aida, M Komachi, T Ogiso… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
The meanings and relationships of words shift over time. This phenomenon is referred to as
semantic shift. Research focused on understanding how semantic shifts occur over multiple …

Investigating the Contextualised Word Embedding Dimensions Responsible for Contextual and Temporal Semantic Changes

T Aida, D Bollegala - arxiv preprint arxiv:2407.02820, 2024 - arxiv.org
Words change their meaning over time as well as in different contexts. The sense-aware
contextualised word embeddings (SCWEs) such as the ones produced by XL-LEXEME by …

The dynamics of meaning through time: Assessment of Large Language Models

MT Alrefaie, F Salem, NE Morsy, N Samir… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Understanding how large language models (LLMs) grasp the historical context of concepts
and their semantic evolution is essential in advancing artificial intelligence and linguistic …

[PDF][PDF] DWUGs-IT: Extending and Standardizing Lexical Semantic Change Detection for Italian

P Cassotti, P Basile, N Tahmasebi - 2024 - ceur-ws.org
Abstract Lexical Semantic Change Detection (LSCD) is the task of determining whether a
word has undergone a change in meaning over time. There has been a marked increase in …