@inproceedings{zimmermann-2019-studying,
    title = "Studying Semantic Chain Shifts with {W}ord2{V}ec: {FOOD}{\ensuremath{>}}{MEAT}{\ensuremath{>}}{FLESH}",
    author = "Zimmermann, Richard",
    editor = "Tahmasebi, Nina  and
      Borin, Lars  and
      Jatowt, Adam  and
      Xu, Yang",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change",
    month = aug,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Florence, Italy",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/W19-4703/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-4703",
    pages = "23--28",
    abstract = "Word2Vec models are used to study the semantic chain shift FOOD{\ensuremath{>}}MEAT{\ensuremath{>}}FLESH in the history of English, c. 1425-1925. The development stretches out over a long time, starting before 1500, and may possibly be continuing to this day. The semantic changes likely proceeded as a push chain."
}