Daphna Keidar

Slangvolution: A Causal Analysis of Semantic Change and Frequency Dynamics in Slang

2022 · Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Languages are continuously undergoing changes, and the mechanisms that underlie these changes are still a matter of debate. In this work, we approach language evolution through the lens of causality in order to model not …