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.
@article{arxiv.1809.03169,
title = {Short-Term Meaning Shift: A Distributional Exploration},
author = {Marco Del Tredici and Raquel Fernández and Gemma Boleda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.03169},
year = {2019}
}