@inproceedings{xu-etal-2019-treat,
    title = "Treat the Word As a Whole or Look Inside? Subword Embeddings Model Language Change and Typology",
    author = "Xu, Yang  and
      Zhang, Jiasheng  and
      Reitter, David",
    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/W19-4717/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-4717",
    pages = "136--145",
    abstract = "We use a variant of word embedding model that incorporates subword information to characterize the degree of compositionality in lexical semantics. Our models reveal some interesting yet contrastive patterns of long-term change in multiple languages: Indo-European languages put more weight on subword units in newer words, while conversely Chinese puts less weights on the subwords, but more weight on the word as a whole. Our method provides novel evidence and methodology that enriches existing theories in evolutionary linguistics. The resulting word vectors also has decent performance in NLP-related tasks."
}