Measuring diachronic sense change: new models and Monte Carlo methods for Bayesian inference

In a bag-of-words model, the senses of a word with multiple meanings, for example ‘bank’ (used either in a river-bank or an institution sense), are represented as probability distributions over context words, and sense prevalence is represented as a probability distribution over senses. Both of thes...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zafar, S, Nicholls, GK
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2022