Tracing Antisemitic Language Through Diachronic Embedding Projections: France 1789-1914

Rocco Tripodi, Massimo Warglien, Simon Levis Sullam, Deborah Paci

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Abstract
We investigate some aspects of the history of antisemitism in France, one of the cradles of modern antisemitism, using diachronic word embeddings. We constructed a large corpus of French books and periodicals issues that contain a keyword related to Jews and performed a diachronic word embedding over the 1789-1914 period. We studied the changes over time in the semantic spaces of 4 target words and performed embedding projections over 6 streams of antisemitic discourse. This allowed us to track the evolution of antisemitic bias in the religious, economic, socio-politic, racial, ethic and conspiratorial domains. Projections show a trend of growing antisemitism, especially in the years starting in the mid-80s and culminating in the Dreyfus affair. Our analysis also allows us to highlight the peculiar adverse bias towards Judaism in the broader context of other religions.
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W19-4715
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Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change
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August
Year:
2019
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Florence, Italy
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Nina Tahmasebi, Lars Borin, Adam Jatowt, Yang Xu
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LChange
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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115–125
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-4715
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-4715
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Rocco Tripodi, Massimo Warglien, Simon Levis Sullam, and Deborah Paci. 2019. Tracing Antisemitic Language Through Diachronic Embedding Projections: France 1789-1914. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, pages 115–125, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Tracing Antisemitic Language Through Diachronic Embedding Projections: France 1789-1914 (Tripodi et al., LChange 2019)
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