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LSCDiscovery: A shared task on semantic change discovery and detection in Spanish

arXiv 2205.06691 ↗First posted 13 May 2022cs.CLcited by 11

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Abstract (arXiv)

We present the first shared task on semantic change discovery and detection in Spanish and create the first dataset of Spanish words manually annotated for semantic change using the DURel framework (Schlechtweg et al., 2018). The task is divided in two phases: 1) Graded Change Discovery, and 2) Binary Change Detection. In addition to introducing a new language the main novelty with respect to the previous tasks consists in predicting and evaluating changes for all vocabulary words in the corpus. Six teams participated in phase 1 and seven teams in phase 2 of the shared task, and the best system obtained a Spearman rank correlation of 0.735 for phase 1 and an F1 score of 0.716 for phase 2. We describe the systems developed by the competing teams, highlighting the techniques that were particularly useful and discuss the limits of these approaches.

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11 papers.

  1. 2023A Survey on Contextualised Semantic Shift Detectioncited by 22
  2. 2023Machine-assisted quantitizing designs: augmenting humanities and social sciences with artificial intelligencecited by 15
  3. 2023Substitution-based Semantic Change Detection using Contextual Embeddingscited by 9
  4. 2024The LSCD Benchmark: a Testbed for Diachronic Word Meaning Taskscited by 3
  5. 2024Presence or Absence: Are Unknown Word Usages in Dictionaries?cited by 3
  6. 2022BOS at LSCDiscovery: Lexical Substitution for Interpretable Lexical Semantic Change Detectioncited by 2
  7. 2023Computational modeling of semantic changecited by 2
  8. 2024Tracking Semantic Change in Slovene: A Novel Dataset and Optimal Transport-Based Distancecited by 1
  9. 2026Evaluating the Evaluator: Problems with SemEval-2020 Task 1 for Lexical Semantic Change Detectioncited by 1
  10. 2023A Tale of Two Laws of Semantic Change: Predicting Synonym Changes with Distributional Semantic Modelscited by 0
  11. 2025CALE : Concept-Aligned Embeddings for Both Within-Lemma and Inter-Lemma Sense Differentiationcited by 0