The UCD-Net System at SemEval-2020 Task 1: Temporal Referencing with Semantic Network Distances
Paul Nulty, David Lillis · 2020
This paper describes the UCD-Net system entered for SemEval 2020 Task 1: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change Detection.We propose a novel method based on distance between temporally referenced lexical nodes in a semantic network constructed from a combination of the time specific corpora.We argue for the value of semantic networks as objects for transparent exploratory analysis and visualisation of lexical semantic change, and present an application of an interactive semantic network exploration tool for interpreting specific aspects of subtle changes in conceptual meaning.