• block: markdown content: title: “Methods, tools, and applications” text: | I develop computational tools for measuring how word meanings change over time. My work sits between basic science and substantive application: I build methods for studying semantic change, then apply them to culturally important language about mental health, harm, identity, and social evaluation.

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  <h3 style="margin-top: 0;">SIBling</h3>
  <p>A multidimensional framework for measuring semantic change across <strong>Sentiment</strong>, <strong>Intensity</strong>, and <strong>Breadth</strong>.</p>
  <p style="font-size: 0.95rem;">Useful for studying broadening, emotional intensification, evaluative shift, concept creep, and changing mental health language.</p>
  <p><a href="/publication/journal-article_2024_acl_sibling/">Paper</a> · <a href="https://github.com/naomibaes/lexical_semantic_change_framework">Code</a></p>
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  <h3 style="margin-top: 0;">LSC-Eval</h3>
  <p>An evaluation framework for testing whether semantic change methods detect specific kinds of change under controlled conditions.</p>
  <p style="font-size: 0.95rem;">Useful for method evaluation, synthetic diachronic corpora, benchmarking, and interpretable NLP.</p>
  <p><a href="/publication/journal-article_2025_acl-findings/">Paper</a> · <a href="https://github.com/naomibaes/LSCD_method_evaluation">Code</a></p>
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  <h3 style="margin-top: 0;">Sense tracking</h3>
  <p>A threshold-calibrated pipeline for estimating how the prevalence of a word's senses changes across historical corpora.</p>
  <p style="font-size: 0.95rem;">Useful for distinguishing contextual change from shifts in literal, metaphorical, or diagnostic senses.</p>
  <p><a href="/publication/workshop-paper-2026_sense-prevalence/">Project</a></p>
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  <h3 style="margin-top: 0;">Substantive applications</h3>
  <p>I apply these methods to socially important language, including mental health concepts, schizophrenia-related discourse, dehumanization, stigma, and contested social categories.</p>
  <p style="font-size: 0.95rem;">These applications show how computational tools can help study changing cultural understandings of harm, disorder, identity, and social evaluation.</p>
  <p><a href="/research/mental-health-language/">Mental health</a> · <a href="/research/social-meaning/">Social meaning</a></p>
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