Diachronic Trends in Word Order Freedom and Dependency Length in Dependency-Annotated Corpora of Latin and Ancient Greek

Quantifying Word Order Freedom in Dependency Corpora

A fully data-driven method to identify (correlated) changes in diachronic corpora

In this paper, a method for measuring synchronic corpus (dis-)similarity put forward by Kilgarriff (2001) is adapted and extended to identify trends and correlated changes in diachronic text data, using the Corpus of His…

DRIFT: A Toolkit for Diachronic Analysis of Scientific Literature

In this work, we present to the NLP community, and to the wider research community as a whole, an application for the diachronic analysis of research corpora. We open source an easy-to-use tool coined: DRIFT, which allow…

Visualisation Methods for Diachronic Semantic Shift

The meaning and usage of a concept or a word changes over time. These diachronic semantic shifts reflect the change of societal and cultural consensus as well as the evolution of science. The availability of large-scale …

Diachronic Analysis of German Parliamentary Proceedings: Ideological Shifts through the Lens of Political Biases

We analyze bias in historical corpora as encoded in diachronic distributional semantic models by focusing on two specific forms of bias, namely a political (i.e., anti-communism) and racist (i.e., antisemitism) one. For …