ChiWUG: A Graph-based Evaluation Dataset for Chinese Lexical Semantic Change Detection

Jing Chen, Emmanuele Chersoni, Dominik Schlechtweg, Jelena Prokic, Chu-Ren Huang


Abstract
Recent studies suggested that language models are efficient tools for measuring lexical semantic change. In our paper, we present the compilation of the first graph-based evaluation dataset for lexical semantic change in the context of the Chinese language, specifically covering the periods of pre- and post- Reform and Opening Up. Exploiting the existing framework DURel, we collect over 61,000 human semantic relatedness judgments for 40 targets. The inferred word usage graphs and semantic change scores provide a basis for visualization and evaluation of semantic change.
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2023.lchange-1.10
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Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change
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December
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2023
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Singapore
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Nina Tahmasebi, Syrielle Montariol, Haim Dubossarsky, Andrey Kutuzov, Simon Hengchen, David Alfter, Francesco Periti, Pierluigi Cassotti
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LChange
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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93–99
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.lchange-1.10
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10.18653/v1/2023.lchange-1.10
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Jing Chen, Emmanuele Chersoni, Dominik Schlechtweg, Jelena Prokic, and Chu-Ren Huang. 2023. ChiWUG: A Graph-based Evaluation Dataset for Chinese Lexical Semantic Change Detection. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, pages 93–99, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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