As language models grow ever larger, the need for large-scale high-quality text datasets has
never been more pressing, especially in multilingual settings. The BigScience workshop, a 1 …

We present a data-driven approach to detect periods of linguistic change and the lexical and
grammatical features contributing to change. We focus on the development of scientific …

We present a model of the linguistic development of scientific English from the mid-
seventeenth to the late-nineteenth century, a period that witnessed significant political and …

We trace the evolution of Scientific English through the Late Modern period to modern time
on the basis of a comprehensive corpus composed of the Transactions and Proceedings of …

We present a new, extended version of the Royal Society Corpus (RSC), a diachronic
corpus of scientific English now covering 300+ years of scientific writing (1665–1996). The …

We present an information-theoretic approach to investigate diachronic change in scientific
English. Our main assumption is that over time scientific English has become increasingly …

The editors of scientific journals are key gatekeepers for building careers and
communicating knowledge, but we know far less about them than about scientific authors …

In this article we provide an overview of first-hand experiences and vantage points for best
practices from projects in seven European countries dedicated to learner corpus research …

We present two comparable diachronic corpora of scientific English and German from the
Late Modern Period (17th c.–19th c.) annotated with Universal Dependencies. We describe …

We present a new approach for modeling diachronic linguistic change in grammatical
usage. We illustrate the approach on English scientific writing in Late Modern English …