Multi-word Measures: Modeling Semantic Change in Compound Nouns (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Compound words provide a multifaceted challenge for diachronic models of semantic change . novel sense-targeting approach targets both noun compounds and their constituent parts . |
| Approach: | They propose a dataset of relatedness judgements of noun compounds in English and german . they use contrasting vector representations to evaluate their ability to cluster example sentence pairs . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach captures diachronic meaning changes for multi-word expressions without condensing individual senses into an aggregate value. |
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