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DUKweb, diachronic word representations from the UK Web Archive corpus.

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Article

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Tsakalidis, Adam 
Bazzi, Marya 
McGillivray, Barbara 

Abstract

Lexical semantic change (detecting shifts in the meaning and usage of words) is an important task for social and cultural studies as well as for Natural Language Processing applications. Diachronic word embeddings (time-sensitive vector representations of words that preserve their meaning) have become the standard resource for this task. However, given the significant computational resources needed for their generation, very few resources exist that make diachronic word embeddings available to the scientific community. In this paper we present DUKweb, a set of large-scale resources designed for the diachronic analysis of contemporary English. DUKweb was created from the JISC UK Web Domain Dataset (1996-2013), a very large archive which collects resources from the Internet Archive that were hosted on domains ending in '.uk'. DUKweb consists of a series word co-occurrence matrices and two types of word embeddings for each year in the JISC UK Web Domain dataset. We show the reuse potential of DUKweb and its quality standards via a case study on word meaning change detection.

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46 Information and Computing Sciences, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4704 Linguistics

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2052-4463
2052-4463

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Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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Creative Commons CC BY 4.0
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Alan Turing Institute (EP/N510129/1)