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Lexical Semantic Change through Large Language Models: a Survey
Lexical Semantic Change (LSC) is the task of identifying, interpreting, and assessing the possible change over time in the meanings of a target word. Traditionally, LSC has been addressed by linguists and social scientists through manual and time-consuming analyses, which have thus been limited in terms of the volume, genres, and time-frame that can be considered. In recent years, computational approaches based on Natural Language Processing have gained increasing attention to automate LSC as much as possible. Significant advancements have been made by relying on Large Language Models (LLMs), which can handle the multiple usages of the words and better capture the related semantic change. In this article, we survey the approaches based on LLMs for LSC and we propose a classification framework characterized by three dimensions: meaning representation, time-awareness, and learning modality. The framework is exploited to i) review the measures for change assessment, ii) compare the approaches on performance, and iii) discuss the current issues in terms of scalability, interpretability, and robustness. Open challenges and future research directions about the use of LLMs for LSC are finally outlined.
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ACM Computing Surveys is an academic journal that focuses on publishing surveys and tutorials on various areas of computing research and practice. The journal aims to provide comprehensive and easily understandable articles that guide readers through the literature and help them understand topics outside their specialties. In terms of impact, CSUR has a high reputation with a 2022 Impact Factor of 16.6. It is ranked 3rd out of 111 journals in the field of Computer Science Theory & Methods.
ACM Computing Surveys is indexed and abstracted in various services, including AI2 Semantic Scholar, Baidu, Clarivate/ISI: JCR, CNKI, DeepDyve, DTU, EBSCO: EDS/HOST, and IET Inspec, among others.