Concept information
Preferred term
semantic change
Broader concept
Synonym(s)
- semantic development
- semantic drift
- semantic progression
- semantic shift
Definitional context(s)
- Semantic drift often referred to as semantic shift or semantic change is the process in which words change their meaning over time (Hock and Joseph 2009). (Arviv & Tsur, 2022)
Example
- A different approach to detect the semantic shift of words was adopted by Kulkarni et al. (2015). (Basile, Caputo, Lawless & Semeraro, 2019)
- A quantitative estimate of semantic change for each target word is measured by computing the cosine distance between two averaged time-specific representations of the word. (Martinc, Montariol, Zosa & Pivovarova, 2020)
- Broadly speaking a semantic shift is a grass-root process -a result of the way the speaker community use the language rather than a shift forced by a regulatory body. (Arviv & Tsur, 2022)
- Hamilton et al. (2016b) also trained word embeddings on the Google Ngram for detecting semantic changes. (Basile, Caputo, Lawless & Semeraro, 2019)
- We statistically validate these predictions with historical language data covering semantic developments of a set of English words. (Baumann, Stephan & Roth, 2023)
In other languages
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French
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glissement de sens
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néosémie
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/8LP-L2TFR2TP-M
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