Computational approaches to semantic change (Volume 6)
Semantic change — how the meanings of words change over time — has preoccupied scholars since well before modern linguistics emerged in the late 19th and early 20th century, ushering in a new methodological turn in the study of language change. Compared to changes in sound and grammar, semantic chan...
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| description | Semantic change — how the meanings of words change over time — has preoccupied scholars since well before modern linguistics emerged in the late 19th and early 20th century, ushering in a new methodological turn in the study of language change. Compared to changes in sound and grammar, semantic change is the least understood. Ever since, the study of semantic change has progressed steadily, accumulating a vast store of knowledge for over a century, encompassing many languages and language families. Historical linguists also early on realized the potential of computers as research tools, with papers at the very first international conferences in computational linguistics in the 1960s. Such computational studies still tended to be small-scale, method-oriented, and qualitative. However, recent years have witnessed a sea-change in this regard. Big-data empirical quantitative investigations are now coming to the forefront, enabled by enormous advances in storage capability and processing power. Diachronic corpora have grown beyond imagination, defying exploration by traditional manual qualitative methods, and language technology has become increasingly data-driven and semantics-oriented. These developments present a golden opportunity for the empirical study of semantic change over both long and short time spans. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-723832026-06-12T09:38:19Z Computational approaches to semantic change (Volume 6) Hengchen, Simon Xu, Yang Tahmasebi, Nina Jatowt, Adam Borin, Lars Language Arts & Disciplines Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics Semantic change — how the meanings of words change over time — has preoccupied scholars since well before modern linguistics emerged in the late 19th and early 20th century, ushering in a new methodological turn in the study of language change. Compared to changes in sound and grammar, semantic change is the least understood. Ever since, the study of semantic change has progressed steadily, accumulating a vast store of knowledge for over a century, encompassing many languages and language families. Historical linguists also early on realized the potential of computers as research tools, with papers at the very first international conferences in computational linguistics in the 1960s. Such computational studies still tended to be small-scale, method-oriented, and qualitative. However, recent years have witnessed a sea-change in this regard. Big-data empirical quantitative investigations are now coming to the forefront, enabled by enormous advances in storage capability and processing power. Diachronic corpora have grown beyond imagination, defying exploration by traditional manual qualitative methods, and language technology has become increasingly data-driven and semantics-oriented. These developments present a golden opportunity for the empirical study of semantic change over both long and short time spans. 2021-10-17T04:02:19Z 2021-10-17T04:02:19Z 2021-10-16T05:31:20Z 2021 book OCN: 1285289703 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51036 9783985540082 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/72383 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51036/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51036/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51036/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51036/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51036/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51036/1/external_content.pdf Language Science Press Language Science Press https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5040241 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5040241 ed03121b-b998-4b50-8d58-1d0745565558 Knowledge Unlatched 9783985540082 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Language Science Press 2021-2023 Language Science Press open access |
| spellingShingle | Language Arts & Disciplines Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics Computational approaches to semantic change (Volume 6) |
| title | Computational approaches to semantic change (Volume 6) |
| title_full | Computational approaches to semantic change (Volume 6) |
| title_fullStr | Computational approaches to semantic change (Volume 6) |
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| title_short | Computational approaches to semantic change (Volume 6) |
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