2018/09/10 by Marco Del Tredici, Raquel Fernández, Del Tredici, Marco +3
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Authorship Attribution and Profiling #Complex Network Analysis Techniques #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Language and cultural evolution
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1809.03169
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We present the first exploration of meaning shift over short periods of time in online communities using distributional representations. We create a small annotated dataset and use it to assess the performance of a standard model for meaning shift detection on short-term meaning shift. We find that the model has problems distinguishing meaning shift from referential phenomena, and propose a measure of contextual variability to remedy this.