A Survey on Contextualised Semantic Shift Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01666v2
• Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 15:33:13 GMT
• Title: A Survey on Contextualised Semantic Shift Detection
• Authors: Stefano Montanelli, Francesco Periti,
• Abstract summary: Semantic Shift Detection (SSD) is the task of identifying, interpreting, and assessing the possible change over time in the meanings of a target word. We propose a classification framework characterised by meaning representation, time-awareness, and learning modality dimensions.
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• Abstract: Semantic Shift Detection (SSD) is the task of identifying, interpreting, and assessing the possible change over time in the meanings of a target word. Traditionally, SSD has been addressed by linguists and social scientists through manual and time-consuming activities. In the recent years, computational approaches based on Natural Language Processing and word embeddings gained increasing attention to automate SSD as much as possible. In particular, over the past three years, significant advancements have been made almost exclusively based on word contextualised embedding models, which can handle the multiple usages/meanings of the words and better capture the related semantic shifts. In this paper, we survey the approaches based on contextualised embeddings for SSD (i.e., CSSDetection) and we propose a classification framework characterised by meaning representation, time-awareness, and learning modality dimensions. The framework is exploited i) to review the measures for shift assessment, ii) to compare the approaches on performance, and iii) to discuss the current issues in terms of scalability, interpretability, and robustness. Open challenges and future research directions about CSSDetection are finally outlined.

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