The Visualization of Change in Word Meaning over Time using Temporal Word Embeddings

2014/10/18 by Chiraag Lala, Shay B. Cohen, Lala, Chiraag +1
Computer Science · #Advanced Text Analysis Techniques #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Topic Modeling

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1410.4966

openalex publication_date 2014/10/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We describe a visualization tool that can be used to view the change in meaning of words over time. The tool makes use of existing (static) word embedding datasets together with a timestamped n-gram corpus to create \em temporal word embeddings.

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