Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: Detecting word sense changes can be of great interest in the field of digital humanities. Thus far, most investigations and automatic methods have been developed and carried out on English text and most recent methods make use of word embeddings. This paper presents a study on using Word2Vec, a neural word embedding method, on a Swedish historical newspaper collection. Our study includes a set of 11 words and our focus is the quality and stability of the word vectors over time. We investigate whether a word embedding method like Word2Vec can be effectively used on texts where the volume and quality is limited.
Author: Nina Tahmasebi
Institutions: Språkbanken, University of Gothenburg
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: Vetenskapsrådet
OpenAlex ID: W2807497675