EmbLexChange at SemEval-2020 Task 1: Unsupervised Embedding-based Detection of Lexical Semantic Changes

Ehsaneddin Asgari, Christoph Ringlstetter, Hinrich Schütze

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Abstract

This paper describes EmbLexChange, a system introduced by the “Life-Language” team for SemEval-2020 Task 1, on unsupervised detection of lexical-semantic changes. EmbLexChange is defined as the divergence between the embedding based profiles of word w (calculated with respect to a set of reference words) in the source and the target domains (source and target domains can be simply two time frames t1 and t2). The underlying assumption is that the lexical-semantic change of word w would affect its co-occurring words and subsequently alters the neighborhoods in the embedding spaces. We show that using a resampling framework for the selection of reference words (with conserved senses), we can more reliably detect lexical-semantic changes in English, German, Swedish, and Latin. EmbLexChange achieved second place in the binary detection of semantic changes in the SemEval-2020.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020 - co-located 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020, Proceedings
EditorsAurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu, Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova
PublisherInternational Committee for Computational Linguistics
Pages201-207
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781952148316
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 12 Dec 202013 Dec 2020

Publication series

Name14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020 - co-located 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020, Proceedings

Conference

Conference14th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2020
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period12/12/2013/12/20

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