Search Results for author: Barbara McGillivray

Found 18 papers, 10 papers with code

Embedding Structured Dictionary Entries

no code implementations EMNLP (insights) 2020 Steven Wilson, Walid Magdy, Barbara McGillivray, Gareth Tyson

Previous work has shown how to effectively use external resources such as dictionaries to improve English-language word embeddings, either by manipulating the training process or by applying post-hoc adjustments to the embedding space.

Learning Word Embeddings Multi-Task Learning

Computational valency lexica and Homeric formularity

no code implementations23 Aug 2022 Barbara McGillivray, Martina Astrid Rodda

But can we use distributional semantics to study a language with such a limited corpus as ancient Greek?

DUKweb: Diachronic word representations from the UK Web Archive corpus

1 code implementation2 Jul 2021 Adam Tsakalidis, Pierpaolo Basile, Marya Bazzi, Mihai Cucuringu, Barbara McGillivray

Lexical semantic change (detecting shifts in the meaning and usage of words) is an important task for social and cultural studies as well as for Natural Language Processing applications.

Change Detection Diachronic Word Embeddings +1

Lexical semantic change for Ancient Greek and Latin

1 code implementation22 Jan 2021 Valerio Perrone, Simon Hengchen, Marco Palma, Alessandro Vatri, Jim Q. Smith, Barbara McGillivray

In this chapter we build on GASC, a recent computational approach to semantic change based on a dynamic Bayesian mixture model.

SemEval-2020 Task 1: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change Detection

2 code implementations SEMEVAL 2020 Dominik Schlechtweg, Barbara McGillivray, Simon Hengchen, Haim Dubossarsky, Nina Tahmasebi

Lexical Semantic Change detection, i. e., the task of identifying words that change meaning over time, is a very active research area, with applications in NLP, lexicography, and linguistics.

Change Detection

Analyzing Temporal Relationships between Trending Terms on Twitter and Urban Dictionary Activity

no code implementations15 May 2020 Steven R. Wilson, Walid Magdy, Barbara McGillivray, Gareth Tyson

However, it is unclear exactly how activity on this platform relates to larger conversations happening elsewhere on the web, such as discussions on larger, more popular social media platforms.

Urban Dictionary Embeddings for Slang NLP Applications

no code implementations LREC 2020 Steven Wilson, Walid Magdy, Barbara McGillivray, Kiran Garimella, Gareth Tyson

The choice of the corpus on which word embeddings are trained can have a sizable effect on the learned representations, the types of analyses that can be performed with them, and their utility as features for machine learning models.

Clustering Sarcasm Detection +4

Room to Glo: A Systematic Comparison of Semantic Change Detection Approaches with Word Embeddings

no code implementations IJCNLP 2019 Philippa Shoemark, Farhana Ferdousi Liza, Dong Nguyen, Scott Hale, Barbara McGillivray

Word embeddings are increasingly used for the automatic detection of semantic change; yet, a robust evaluation and systematic comparison of the choices involved has been lacking.

Change Detection Time Series +2

Mining the UK Web Archive for Semantic Change Detection

no code implementations RANLP 2019 Adam Tsakalidis, Marya Bazzi, Mihai Cucuringu, Pierpaolo Basile, Barbara McGillivray

Semantic change detection (i. e., identifying words whose meaning has changed over time) started emerging as a growing area of research over the past decade, with important downstream applications in natural language processing, historical linguistics and computational social science.

Change Detection

The citation advantage of linking publications to research data

2 code implementations4 Jul 2019 Giovanni Colavizza, Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Isla Staden, Kirstie Whitaker, Barbara McGillivray

Efforts to make research results open and reproducible are increasingly reflected by journal policies encouraging or mandating authors to provide data availability statements.

Digital Libraries

Extracting Keywords from Open-Ended Business Survey Questions

1 code implementation31 Aug 2018 Barbara McGillivray, Gard Jenset, Dominik Heil

Open-ended survey data constitute an important basis in research as well as for making business decisions.

Multiple-choice

Pilot study for the COST Action "Reassembling the Republic of Letters": language-driven network analysis of letters from the Hartlib's Papers

1 code implementation30 Jan 2018 Barbara McGillivray, Federico Sangati

The present report summarizes an exploratory study which we carried out in the context of the COST Action IS1310 "Reassembling the Republic of Letters, 1500-1800", and which is relevant to the activities of Working Group 3 "Texts and Topics" and Working Group 2 "People and Networks".

Emo, Love, and God: Making Sense of Urban Dictionary, a Crowd-Sourced Online Dictionary

no code implementations22 Dec 2017 Dong Nguyen, Barbara McGillivray, Taha Yasseri

On the one hand, the promise of the "wisdom of the crowd" has inspired successful projects such as Wikipedia, which has become the primary source of crowd-based information in many languages.

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