Machines in the media: semantic change in the lexicon of mechanization in 19th-century British newspapers

The industrialization process associated with the so-called Industrial Revolution in 19th - century Great Britain was a time of profound changes, including in the English lexicon. An important yet understudied phenomenon is the semantic shift in the lexicon of mechanisation. In this paper we present...

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Main Authors: Pedrazzini, N, McGillivray, B
Format: Conference item
Language:English
Published: Association for Computational Linguistics 2022