Meaning Variation and Data Quality in the Corpus of Founding Era American English (2025.acl-short)
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| Challenge: | Legal scholars are increasingly using corpus based methods for assessing historical meaning . main corpus used in legal arguments is the Corpus of Founding Era American English . |
| Approach: | They demonstrate how NLP can be used to infer meaning change and variation using masked language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can be used to infer meaning change and variation using advanced methods. |
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