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The corpora they are a-changing: a case study in Italian newspapers

Basile, Pierpaolo ORCID: 0000-0002-0545-1105, Caputo, Annalina ORCID: 0000-0002-7144-8545, Caselli, Tommaso ORCID: 0000-0003-2936-0256, Cassotti, Pierluigi and Varvara, Rossella ORCID: 0000-0001-9957-2807 (2021) The corpora they are a-changing: a case study in Italian newspapers. In: 2nd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2021, Online.

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Abstract

The use of automatic methods for the study of lexical semantic change (LSC) has led to the creation of evaluation benchmarks. Benchmark datasets, however, are intimately tied to the corpus used for their creation questioning their reliability as well as the robustness of automatic methods. This contribution investigates these aspects showing the impact of unforeseen social and cultural dimensions. We also identify a set of additional issues (OCR quality, named entities) that impact the performance of the automatic methods, especially when used to discover LSC.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Workshop
Refereed:Yes
Subjects:Computer Science > Computational linguistics
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Research Initiatives and Centres > ADAPT
Published in: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2021. . Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Publisher:Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Official URL:https://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.lchange-1.3
Copyright Information:© 2021 Association for Computational Linguistics
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:Science Foundation Ireland (grant Agreement No. 13/RC/2106) at the ADAPT at DCU, EVALITA4ELG project, funded by ELG (European Language Grid) Pilot Projects Open Call 1 (Grant Agreement No. 825627 –H2020, ICT 20182020 FSTP), Science Foundation Ireland, European Regional Development Fund (ERDF, Grant No. 13/RC/2106 References P2)
ID Code:26587
Deposited On:10 Jan 2022 16:55 by Annalina Caputo . Last Modified 10 Jan 2022 16:55

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