German in Flux: Detecting Metaphoric Change via Word Entropy
Dominik Schlechtweg, Stefanie Eckmann, Enrico Santus, Sabine Schulte im Walde, Daniel Hole · 2017
This paper explores the informationtheoretic measure entropy to detect metaphoric change, transferring ideas from hypernym detection to research on language change.We also build the first diachronic test set for German as a standard for metaphoric change annotation.Our model shows high performance, is unsupervised, language-independent and generalizable to other processes of semantic change.