Detecting Contact-Induced Semantic Shifts: What Can Embedding-Based Methods Do in Practice?

no code implementations • EMNLP 2021 • Filip Miletic, Anne Przewozny-Desriaux, Ludovic Tanguy

This study investigates the applicability of semantic change detection methods in descriptively oriented linguistic research.

Change Detection

Collecting Tweets to Investigate Regional Variation in Canadian English

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Filip Miletic, Anne Przewozny-Desriaux, Ludovic Tanguy

We present a 78. 8-million-tweet, 1. 3-billion-word corpus aimed at studying regional variation in Canadian English with a specific focus on the dialect regions of Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.