German in Flux: Detecting Metaphoric Change via Word Entropy

06/15/2017
by   Dominik Schlechtweg, et al.
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This paper explores the information-theoretic measure entropy to detect metaphoric change, transferring ideas from hypernym detection to research on language change. We also build the first diachronic test set for German as a standard for metaphoric change annotation. Our model shows high performance, is unsupervised, language-independent and generalizable to other processes of semantic change.

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