
Semantic change analysis for Ancient Greek lexicological studies
A lexicologist wants to study the evolution of a lexical or semantic field in Ancient Greek. Starting with a specific semantic field and a list of words associated with it, they need to determine which words have changed their meaning and which new senses they have acquired or lost, or which of their meanings have undergone some other type of semantic change. This type of study can be carried out by using various resources, including those already available in CLARIN. However, these resources are currently scattered across different CLARIN Resource Families, and do not have enough visibility for people who work on lexical semantic change in different fields. This task would hugely benefit from the creation of a new CLARIN Resource Family for Lexical Semantic Change (LSC), which would collect all existing resources (and possibly new ones) that could be employed for the study of LSC in this scenario. This workflow aims at illustrating how such a new CRF could be used for applications in lexical semantic change, by taking the work of a lexicologist on a semantic field as a use-case.
Workflow steps(6)
2 Split the corpus into different spans
3 Train word embeddings on different spans
4 Evaluation against a Gold Standard
5 Qualitative analysis of the results of the word embeddings
6 Additional analysis: qualify the type of semantic change
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