@inproceedings{vylomova-etal-2019-evaluation,
    title = "Evaluation of Semantic Change of Harm-Related Concepts in Psychology",
    author = "Vylomova, Ekaterina  and
      Murphy, Sean  and
      Haslam, Nicholas",
    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/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/W19-4704/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-4704",
    pages = "29--34",
    abstract = "The paper focuses on diachronic evaluation of semantic changes of harm-related concepts in psychology. More specifically, we investigate a hypothesis that certain concepts such as {\textquotedblleft}addiction{\textquotedblright}, {\textquotedblleft}bullying{\textquotedblright}, {\textquotedblleft}harassment{\textquotedblright}, {\textquotedblleft}prejudice{\textquotedblright}, and {\textquotedblleft}trauma{\textquotedblright} became broader during the last four decades. We evaluate semantic changes using two models: an LSA-based model from Sagi et al. (2009) and a diachronic adaptation of word2vec from Hamilton et al. (2016), that are trained on a large corpus of journal abstracts covering the period of 1980{--} 2019. Several concepts showed evidence of broadening. {\textquotedblleft}Addiction{\textquotedblright} moved from physiological dependency on a substance to include psychological dependency on gaming and the Internet. Similarly, {\textquotedblleft}harassment{\textquotedblright} and {\textquotedblleft}trauma{\textquotedblright} shifted towards more psychological meanings. On the other hand, {\textquotedblleft}bullying{\textquotedblright} has transformed into a more victim-related concept and expanded to new areas such as workplaces."
}