Papers by Patrick Drouin
Lexical Profiling of Environmental Corpora (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | a method for distinguishing lexical layers in environmental corpora is described . the general environmental lexicon is well-distributed in a specialized corpus and specific to this type of corporata. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for distinguishing lexical layers in environmental corpora . they aim to identify the general environmental lexicon (GEL) and assess its specificity . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is well-distributed in a specialized corpus and specific to this type of corpora. |
A Methodology for Building a Diachronic Dataset of Semantic Shifts and its Application to QC-FR-Diac-V1.0, a Free Reference for French (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing algorithms to detect semantic shifts have been criticized for their difficulty in evaluating them. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for building a reference dataset for semantic shift detection . they use a word-sense disambiguation model to associate a date of first appearance to all senses of a term . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is based on a word-sense disambiguation model . significant changes in sense distributions and stability are detected . the resulting words are inspected by experts using a dedicated interface . |