Short-term meaning shift: an exploratory distributional analysis

09/10/2018

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by   Marco Del Tredici, et al.

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We investigate diachronic meaning shift that takes place in short periods of time (short-term meaning shift) and in an online community of speakers. We create a small dataset and use it to assess the performance of a standard model for meaning shift detection on short-term meaning shift, and find that this phenomenon poses specific difficulties for models based on the Distributional Hypothesis.