Short-Term Meaning Shift: A Distributional Exploration. Del Tredici, M., Fernández, R., & Boleda, G. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT), pages 2069–2075, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June, 2019. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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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.

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