Challenge: Lexical semantic change detection is a new and innovative research field.
Approach: They propose to pre-train on large corpora and refine on diachronic target corpors to improve performance.
Outcome: The proposed models improve on large corpora and diachronic target corpors . the proposed models are compared with existing models in a variety of learning scenarios .

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