Can Word Sense Distribution Detect Semantic Changes of Words?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10400v1
• Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 13:41:27 GMT
• Title: Can Word Sense Distribution Detect Semantic Changes of Words?
• Authors: Xiaohang Tang, Yi Zhou, Taichi Aida, Procheta Sen, Danushka Bollegala
• Abstract summary: We show that word sense distributions can be accurately used to predict semantic changes of words in English, German, Swedish and Latin. Our experimental results on SemEval 2020 Task 1 dataset show that word sense distributions can be accurately used to predict semantic changes of words.
• Score: 35.17635565325166
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Semantic Change Detection (SCD) of words is an important task for various NLP applications that must make time-sensitive predictions. Some words are used over time in novel ways to express new meanings, and these new meanings establish themselves as novel senses of existing words. On the other hand, Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) methods associate ambiguous words with sense ids, depending on the context in which they occur. Given this relationship between WSD and SCD, we explore the possibility of predicting whether a target word has its meaning changed between two corpora collected at different time steps, by comparing the distributions of senses of that word in each corpora. For this purpose, we use pretrained static sense embeddings to automatically annotate each occurrence of the target word in a corpus with a sense id. Next, we compute the distribution of sense ids of a target word in a given corpus. Finally, we use different divergence or distance measures to quantify the semantic change of the target word across the two given corpora. Our experimental results on SemEval 2020 Task 1 dataset show that word sense distributions can be accurately used to predict semantic changes of words in English, German, Swedish and Latin.

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