Semantics

Lexicon of Changes: Towards the Evaluation of Diachronic Semantic Shift in Chinese ACL 2022 Metaphorical Polysemy Detection: Conventional Metaphor Meets Word Sense Disambiguation COLING 2022 Nibbling at the Hard Core of Word Sense Disambiguation ACL 2022 One Word, Two Sides: Traces of Stance in Contextualized Word Representations COLING 2022 Phonetic erosion and information structure in function words: the case of mia Interspeech 2022 POQue: Asking Participant-specific Outcome Questions for a Deeper Understanding of Complex Events EMNLP 2022 PropBank Comes of Age—Larger, Smarter, and more Diverse NAACL 2022 Semantic-based Pre-training for Dialogue Understanding COLING 2022 Sentence-T5: Scalable Sentence Encoders from Pre-trained Text-to-Text Models ACL 2022 Systematicity in GPT-3’s Interpretation of Novel English Noun Compounds EMNLP 2022 The Distribution of Deontic Modals in Jane Austen’s Mature Novels COLING 2022 The Keystone Role Played by Questions in Debate COLING 2022 The mapping between syntactic and prosodic phrasing in English and Mandarin Interspeech 2022 The Secret of Metaphor on Expressing Stronger Emotion EMNLP 2022 Towards Human Evaluation of Mutual Understanding in Human-Computer Spontaneous Conversation: An Empirical Study of Word Sense Disambiguation for Naturalistic Social Dialogs in American English ACL 2022 UAlberta at LSCDiscovery: Lexical Semantic Change Detection via Word Sense Disambiguation ACL 2022 Use of prosodic and lexical cues for disambiguating wh-words in Korean Interspeech 2022 Using dependency parsing for few-shot learning in distributional semantics ACL 2022 “Vaderland”, “Volk” and “Natie”: Semantic Change Related to Nationalism in Dutch Literature Between 1700 and 1880 Captured with Dynamic Bernoulli Word Embeddings ACL 2022 What Drives the Use of Metaphorical Language? Negative Insights from Abstractness, Affect, Discourse Coherence and Contextualized Word Representations NAACL 2022 What is Done is Done: an Incremental Approach to Semantic Shift Detection ACL 2022 A diachronic evaluation of gender asymmetry in euphemism ACL 2021 ALL Dolphins Are Intelligent and SOME Are Friendly: Probing BERT for Nouns’ Semantic Properties and their Prototypicality EMNLP 2021 An Investigation into the Contribution of Locally Aggregated Descriptors to Figurative Language Identification EMNLP 2021 Connect-the-Dots: Bridging Semantics between Words and Definitions via Aligning Word Sense Inventories EMNLP 2021