Selected Publications

My work clusters around two main areas: (1) NLP and computational linguistics, including semantic change frameworks, benchmarks, word sense modeling, and human–LLM evaluation; and (2) computational social science and psychology applications, including concept creep in mental health concepts, dehumanization of social groups, stigma, and contested social categories.

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.