Tracing metaphors in time through self-distance in vector spaces
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| Publication date | 2016 |
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| Book title | Proceedings of the Third Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2016 |
| Book subtitle | 5-6 December 2016, Napoli |
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| Series | Collana dell'Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale |
| Event | 3rd Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics |
| Pages (from-to) | 117-122 |
| Publisher | Torino: Accademia University Press |
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| Abstract | From a diachronic corpus of Italian, we build consecutive vector spaces in time and use them to compare a term’s cosine similarity to itself in different time spans. We assume that a drop in similarity might be related to the emergence of a metaphorical sense at a given time. Similarity-based observations are matched to the actual year when a figurative meaning was documented in a reference dictionary and through manual inspection of corpus occurrences. |
| Document type | Conference contribution |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1611.03279 https://doi.org/10.4000/books.aaccademia.1666 |
| Published at | https://books.openedition.org/aaccademia/1760 |
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