Publications on Conceptual Change

Naomi Baes, Raphaël Merx, Nick Haslam, Ekaterina Vylomova, Haim Dubossarsky (2025). A General Framework to Evaluate Methods for Assessing Dimensions of Lexical Semantic Change Using LLM-Generated Synthetic Data. arXiv.

Naomi Baes, Nick Haslam, Ekaterina Vylomova (2024). A Multidimensional Framework for Evaluating Lexical Semantic Change with Social Science Applications. Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

Naomi Baes, Nick Haslam (2024). What should we call mental ill health? Historical shifts in the popularity of generic terms. PLOS Mental Health.

Nick Haslam, Naomi Baes, Milad Haghani (2024). The structure and evolution of social psychology: a co-citation network analysis. The Journal of Social Psychology.

Melissa a Wheeler, Samuel G Wilson, Naomi Baes, Vlad Demsar (2024). A search for commonalities in defining the common good: Using folk theories to unlock shared conceptions. The British Journal of Social Psychology.

Naomi Baes, Nick Haslam, Ekaterina Vylomova (2023). Semantic Shifts in Mental Health-Related Concepts. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change.

Naomi Baes, Ekaterina Vylomova, Michael Zyphur, Nick Haslam (2023). The semantic inflation of “trauma” in psychology. Psychology of Language and Communication.

Yu Xiao, Naomi Baes, Ekaterina Vylomova, Nick Haslam (2023). Have the concepts of ‘anxiety’ and ‘depression’ been normalized or pathologized? A corpus study of historical semantic change. PLOS One.

Naomi Baes, Henry Speagle, Nick Haslam (2022). Has Psychology Become More Positive? Trends in Language Use in Article Abstracts. Frontiers in Psychology.