The Corpora They Are a-Changing: a Case Study in Italian Newspapers

Pierpaolo Basile; Annalina Caputo; Tommaso Caselli; Pierluigi Cassotti; Rossella Varvara

doi:10.18653/v1/2021.lchange-1.3

The Corpora They Are a-Changing: a Case Study in Italian Newspapers

Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Tommaso Caselli, Pierluigi Cassotti, Rossella Varvara

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The use of automatic methods for the study of lexical semantic change (LSC) has led to the creation of evaluation benchmarks. Benchmark datasets, however, are intimately tied to the corpus used for their creation questioning their reliability as well as the robustness of automatic methods. This contribution investigates these aspects showing the impact of unforeseen social and cultural dimensions. We also identify a set of additional issues (OCR quality, named entities) that impact the performance of the automatic methods, especially when used to discover LSC.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change
Editors	Nina Tahmasebi, Adam Jatowt, Yang Xu, Simon Hengchen, Syrielle Montariol, Haim Dubossarsky
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	14-20
Number of pages	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.lchange-1.3
Publication status	Published - 27-Jul-2021

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Basile, P., Caputo, A., Caselli, T., Cassotti, P., & Varvara, R. (2021). The Corpora They Are a-Changing: a Case Study in Italian Newspapers. In N. Tahmasebi, A. Jatowt, Y. Xu, S. Hengchen, S. Montariol, & H. Dubossarsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change (pp. 14-20). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.lchange-1.3

Basile, Pierpaolo ; Caputo, Annalina ; Caselli, Tommaso et al. / The Corpora They Are a-Changing: a Case Study in Italian Newspapers. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change . editor / Nina Tahmasebi ; Adam Jatowt ; Yang Xu ; Simon Hengchen ; Syrielle Montariol ; Haim Dubossarsky. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2021. pp. 14-20

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The Corpora They Are a-Changing: a Case Study in Italian Newspapers. / Basile, Pierpaolo; Caputo, Annalina; Caselli, Tommaso et al.
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Basile P, Caputo A, Caselli T, Cassotti P, Varvara R. The Corpora They Are a-Changing: a Case Study in Italian Newspapers. In Tahmasebi N, Jatowt A, Xu Y, Hengchen S, Montariol S, Dubossarsky H, editors, Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change . Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2021. p. 14-20 doi: 10.18653/v1/2021.lchange-1.3

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