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One of the central aspects of contextualised language models is that they should be able to distinguish the meaning of lexically ambiguous words by their contexts. In this paper we investigate the extent to which the contextualised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Janosch Haber , Massimo Poesio

Automatic semantic change methods try to identify the changes that appear over time in the meaning of words by analyzing their usage in diachronic corpora. In this paper, we analyze different strategies to create static and contextual word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Ciprian-Octavian Truică , Victor Tudose , Elena-Simona Apostol

Polysemy and synonymy are two crucial interrelated facets of lexical ambiguity. While both phenomena are widely documented in lexical resources and have been studied extensively in NLP, leading to dedicated systems, they are often being…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Bastien Liétard , Pascal Denis , Mikaela Keller

Prepositions are very common and very ambiguous, and understanding their sense is critical for understanding the meaning of the sentence. Supervised corpora for the preposition-sense disambiguation task are small, suggesting a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Hila Gonen , Yoav Goldberg

State-of-the-art sign language translation (SLT) systems facilitate the learning process through gloss annotations, either in an end2end manner or by involving an intermediate step. Unfortunately, gloss labelled sign language data is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yasser Hamidullah , Josef van Genabith , Cristina España-Bonet

In this paper, we describe our method for detection of lexical semantic change (i.e., word sense changes over time) for the DIACR-Ita shared task, where we ranked $1^{st}$. We examine semantic differences between specific words in two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Ondřej Pražák , Pavel Přibáň , Stephen Taylor

We present a universal framework to model contextualized sentence representations with visual awareness that is motivated to overcome the shortcomings of the multimodal parallel data with manual annotations. For each sentence, we first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Zhuosheng Zhang , Rui Wang , Kehai Chen , Masao Utiyama , Eiichiro Sumita , Hai Zhao

This paper describes SChME (Semantic Change Detection with Model Ensemble), a method usedin SemEval-2020 Task 1 on unsupervised detection of lexical semantic change. SChME usesa model ensemble combining signals of distributional models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Maurício Gruppi , Sibel Adali , Pin-Yu Chen

We computationally implement and experimentally test the behavioral predictions of a dynamic neural model of lexical meaning in the framework of Dynamic Field Theory. We demonstrate the architecture and behavior of the model using as a test…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Michael C. Stern , Maria M. Piñango

In lexical semantics, full-sentence segmentation and segment labeling of various phenomena are generally treated separately, despite their interdependence. We hypothesize that a unified lexical semantic recognition task is an effective way…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Nelson F. Liu , Daniel Hershcovich , Michael Kranzlein , Nathan Schneider

In this paper, we present an approach to learning latent semantic analysis models from loosely annotated images for automatic image annotation and indexing. The given annotation in training images is loose due to: (1) ambiguous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2008-05-30 Hong Tang , Nozha Boujemma , Yunhao Chen

Semantic noise in image classification datasets, where visually similar categories are frequently mislabeled, poses a significant challenge to conventional supervised learning approaches. In this paper, we explore the potential of using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yingxuan Li , Jiafeng Mao , Yusuke Matsui

Lexical semantics is concerned with both the multiple senses a word can adopt in different contexts, and the semantic relations that exist between meanings of different words. To investigate them, Contextualized Language Models are a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Bastien Liétard , Gabriel Loiseau

Lexical semantic change detection aims to identify shifts in word meanings over time. While existing methods using embeddings from a diachronic corpus pair estimate the degree of change for target words, they offer limited insight into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ryo Kishino , Hiroaki Yamagiwa , Ryo Nagata , Sho Yokoi , Hidetoshi Shimodaira

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Dominik Schlechtweg , Stefanie Eckmann , Enrico Santus , Sabine Schulte im Walde , Daniel Hole

Semantics, morphology and syntax are strongly interdependent. However, the majority of computational methods for semantic change detection use distributional word representations which encode mostly semantics. We investigate an alternative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Mario Giulianelli , Andrey Kutuzov , Lidia Pivovarova

The awareness for biased ASR datasets or models has increased notably in recent years. Even for English, despite a vast amount of available training data, systems perform worse for non-native speakers. In this work, we improve an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Philipp Klumpp , Pooja Chitkara , Leda Sarı , Prashant Serai , Jilong Wu , Irina-Elena Veliche , Rongqing Huang , Qing He

Most words have several senses and connotations which evolve in time due to semantic shift, so that closely related words may gain different or even opposite meanings over the years. This evolution is very relevant to the study of language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Jean-François Delpech

Lexical Semantic Change is the study of how the meaning of words evolves through time. Another related question is whether and how lexical relations over pairs of words, such as synonymy, change over time. There are currently two competing,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Bastien Liétard , Mikaela Keller , Pascal Denis

Semantic consistency recognition aims to detect and judge whether the semantics of two text sentences are consistent with each other. However, the existing methods usually encounter the challenges of synonyms, polysemy and difficulty to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Fan Chen , Yan Huang , Xinfang Zhang , Kang Luo , Jinxuan Zhu , Ruixian He