Developing The Historical Thesaurus of the OED

Kay, Christian; Allan, Kathryn; Robinson, Justyna A.

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“…The construction of these domains has been derived carefully from lexicographical data and gradually refined over a period of 40 years. For details of domain classification, see work by the lexicographers of the HTE (p xviii-xx, Kay, Roberts, Samuels, & Wotherspoon, 2009).…”

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Evolution of word meanings through metaphorical mapping: Systematicity over the past millennium

Malt

Srinivasan

2017

Cognitive Psychology

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TitleEvolution of word meanings through metaphorical mapping: Systematicity over the past millennium Data AvailabilityThe data associated with this publication are available upon request. One way that languages are able to communicate a potentially infinite set of ideas through a finite lexicon is by compressing emerging meanings into words, such that over time, individual words come to express multiple, related senses of meaning. We propose that overarching communicative and cognitive pressures have created systematic directionality in how new metaphorical senses have developed from existing word senses over the history of English. Given a large set of pairs of semantic domains, we used computational models to test which domains have been more commonly the starting points (source domains) and which the ending points (target domains) of metaphorical mappings over the past millennium. We found that a compact set of variables, including externality, embodiment, and valence, explain directionality in the majority of about 5000 metaphorical mappings recorded over the past 1100 years. These results provide the first large-scale historical evidence that metaphorical mapping is systematic, and driven by measurable communicative and cognitive principles. Published by Elsevier Inc.

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Section: Historical Dataset Of Metaphorical Mappingmentioning

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Evolution of word meanings through metaphorical mapping: Systematicity over the past millennium

Malt

Srinivasan

2017

Cognitive Psychology

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“…I found, for example, that although Wmatrix automatically assigned all instances of politely to the politeness semtag, S1.2.4+, it was used in one context in a question that sought to suggest 'the covert nature of the art of pick-pocketing' (Archer, The need for historical sensitivity to meaning-in-context has recently been addressed more comprehensively via the Semantic Annotation and Mark Up for Enhancing Lexical Searches (SAMUELS) project (amongst others). 9 As part of SAMUELS, the 232 semantic categories within Wmatrix have been mapped to 4,033 themed categories derived from the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (Kay et al, 2009). This means that researchers can now (better) discover, quantitatively speaking, which words/phrases were used to perform a particular pragmatic or discursive function (such as discourtesy and verbal aggression) throughout the ages (see, e.g., Wattam et al, 2014;Archer and Malory, 2017).…”

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Context and historical (socio-)pragmatics twenty years on

Archer

2017

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This paper has two purposes. First, it constitutes an exploration of context from the perspective of some prominent historical pragmaticians, and/or as demonstrated by publications which represent/exemplify a particular approach within historical pragmatics (Jacobs and Jucker 1995; Archer and Culpeper 2003, 2011; Nevala 2011; Traugott 2004, 2011; 2012; Jucker and Taavitsainen 2014) as well as related disciplines such as historical sociolinguistics (Nevalainen and Raumolin-Brunberg 2003). Second, it explores my own (evolving) view in respect to context, often in response to the influential work of others, as evidenced in a selection of my work (Archer 2005, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014).

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“…Other categories should be added to this ontology to make it more apt for the history domain so to include, for example, events of cognition, emotion and communication. The USAS (Rayson et al 2004) and the Historical Thesaurus of English tagsets (Kay et al 2009) contain twenty-one and thirty-seven main semantic categories, respectively and they have been already used to analyse historical texts (Archer 2014;Rayson et al 2015): For this reason, they can provide an interesting fine-grain classification of events for the history domain. Factuality, i.e., the distinction between actual real facts and imaginary, future, avoided and prevented events, has a limited interest for historians, whilst it is more relevant from a linguistic perspective.…”

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One, no one and one hundred thousand events: Defining and processing events in an inter-disciplinary perspective

Sprugnoli¹,

Tonelli²

2016

Nat. Lang. Eng.

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We present an overview of event definition and processing spanning 25 years of research in NLP. We first provide linguistic background to the notion of event, and then present past attempts to formalize this concept in annotation standards to foster the development of benchmarks for event extraction systems. This ranges from MUC-3 in 1991 to the Time and Space Track challenge at SemEval 2015. Besides, we shed light on other disciplines in which the notion of event plays a crucial role, with a focus on the historical domain. Our goal is to provide a comprehensive study on event definitions and investigate which potential past efforts in the NLP community may have in a different research domain. We present the results of a questionnaire, where the notion of event for historians is put in relation to the NLP perspective.

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Developing The Historical Thesaurus of the OED

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Evolution of word meanings through metaphorical mapping: Systematicity over the past millennium

Evolution of word meanings through metaphorical mapping: Systematicity over the past millennium

Context and historical (socio-)pragmatics twenty years on

One, no one and one hundred thousand events: Defining and processing events in an inter-disciplinary perspective

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