@inproceedings{uban-etal-2026-cross,
    title = "Cross-lingual Lexical Semantic Change in {R}omance Languages",
    author = "Uban, Ana Sabina  and
      Dinu, Liviu P  and
      Dinu, Anca Daniela  and
      Georgescu, Simona",
    editor = "Tahmasebi, Nina  and
      Cassotti, Pierluigi  and
      Montariol, Syrielle  and
      Kutuzov, Andrey  and
      Huebscher, Netta  and
      Spaziani, Elena  and
      Baes, Naomi",
    booktitle = "The Proceedings for the 6th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Change ({LC}hange{'}26)",
    month = mar,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Rabat, Morocco",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-eacl/2026.lchange-1.4/",
    pages = "35--49",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-362-3",
    abstract = "We present a comprehensive quantitative analysis of lexical semantic change in the five main Romance languages (Romanian, Italian, Spanish, French and Portuguese), based on the most exhaustive database of related words in these languages. We include both cognate words and borrowings (for the first time, to our knowledge), and compute semantic shift measures using different static and contextual embedding models, as well as three different corpora. We publish the obtained lists of semantic divergences across all related word pairs, compute global trends in language-level semantic divergence, and provide insights on particular study cases of highly stable and highly divergent words for different language pairs."
}