Studying the Evolution of Scientific Topics and their Relationships (2021.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | a study of scientific topics and their evolution through time is proposed . we analyze scientific texts published in the field of computational linguistics . |
| Approach: | They propose a multidimensional approach to studying scientific topics through time and their relationships between them. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model analyzes scientific texts published in the ACL Anthology and compares them with case studies to understand how topics evolve and disappear over time. |
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