Diachronic Analysis of a Word Concreteness Rating: Impact of Semantic Change

IF 0.8 Q2 MATHEMATICS
V. Bochkarev, S. Khristoforov, A. Shevlyakova, V. Solovyev
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The paper analyses the correlation of change in word concreteness ratings with semantic change. To perform the analysis, we apply a neural network to diachronic data to obtain concreteness ratings of English words. As input to the model, we use co-occurrence statistics with the most frequent words extracted from the Google Books Ngram diachronic corpus. It is shown that the model, initially trained on data averaged over a long time interval, predicts the concreteness ratings with high accuracy (based on the word co-occurrence data in a particular year). The impact of lexical semantic change on the change in the concreteness rating is analyzed using 69 words borrowed from previous works. As the considered cases show, the neural network estimate of the word concreteness rating is very sensitive to changes in semantics. Among the factors that influence changes in the concreteness rating, we reveal the emergence of new meanings of a word, the competition of word meanings related to different parts of speech, the use of a word as a proper name, and the use of the word as a part of collocations. It is shown in the paper that changes in the concreteness rating can (along with changes in other word properties) serve as a marker of semantic change.

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词汇具体性评级的异时分析:语义变化的影响
摘要本文分析了词语具体性评分变化与语义变化的相关性。为了进行分析,我们将神经网络应用于非同步数据,以获得英语单词的具体性评分。作为模型的输入,我们使用了从谷歌图书 Ngram 非同步语料库中提取的最常出现词语的共现统计。结果表明,该模型最初是在一个较长的时间间隔内的平均数据基础上进行训练的,它能以较高的准确度(基于特定年份的词语共现数据)预测具体性评级。我们使用从以前的研究中借用的 69 个单词分析了词汇语义变化对具体程度评分变化的影响。结果表明,神经网络估算的词语具体度等级对语义变化非常敏感。在影响具体度评分变化的因素中,我们发现了词的新含义的出现、与不同语篇相关的词义的竞争、词作为专有名词的使用以及词作为搭配的一部分的使用。本文表明,具体程度等级的变化(连同其他词语属性的变化)可以作为语义变化的标志。
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期刊介绍: Lobachevskii Journal of Mathematics is an international peer reviewed journal published in collaboration with the Russian Academy of Sciences and Kazan Federal University. The journal covers mathematical topics associated with the name of famous Russian mathematician Nikolai Lobachevsky (Lobachevskii). The journal publishes research articles on geometry and topology, algebra, complex analysis, functional analysis, differential equations and mathematical physics, probability theory and stochastic processes, computational mathematics, mathematical modeling, numerical methods and program complexes, computer science, optimal control, and theory of algorithms as well as applied mathematics. The journal welcomes manuscripts from all countries in the English language.
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