Abstract
Word2Vec models are used to study the semantic chain shift FOOD>MEAT>FLESH in the history of English, c. 1425-1925. The development stretches out over a long time, starting before 1500, and may possibly be continuing to this day. The semantic changes likely proceeded as a push chain.
Original language | English |
---|---|
Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change |
Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics |
Pages | 23-28 |
Number of pages | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2019 |