LSC-Eval: A General Framework to Evaluate Methods for Assessing Dimensions of Lexical Semantic Change Using LLM-Generated Synthetic Data
Poster presented at ACL 2025. An evaluation framework that generates historical synthetic benchmark datasets for testing whether semantic change methods are sensitive to detecting the kinds of change they claim to measure.
Jul 28, 2025
SIBling: A Multidimensional Framework for Evaluating Lexical Semantic Change with Social Science Applications
Poster presented at IC2S2 2025. The paper proposes SIBling, a three-dimensional computational linguistic framework for evaluating lexical semantic change across Sentiment, Intensity, and Breadth, illustrated through an analysis of how 'mental health' and 'mental illness' have shifted in meaning across two corpora.
Jul 2, 2025
A Multidimensional Framework for Evaluating Lexical Semantic Change with Social Science Applications
A multidimensional framework to evaluate lexical semantic change, for tracing whether words become broader, more emotionally intense, or more positive or negative over time.
Aug 11, 2024
Semantic Shifts in Mental Health-Related Concepts
Link to slides that accompanied my 20-minute Presentation on this paper that was accepted to a workshop - “4th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2023 (LChange ’23)” - on December 6 2023 at Resorts World Convention Centre, Singapore, affiliated with Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2023 Conference: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/semantic-shifts-in-mental-healthrelated-concepts/264396458
Dec 6, 2023
The semantic inflation of “trauma” in psychology
This work is the culmination of my Honours thesis. Link to slides: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/the-semantic-inflation-of-trauma-in-psychology-naomi-baes-ekaterina-vylomova-mike-j-zyphur-nick-haslam/254846644
Aug 11, 2023
Have the concepts of ‘anxiety’ and ‘depression’ been normalized or pathologized? A corpus study of historical semantic change
This work is the culmination of Yu Xiao’s terrific Honours project, which I helped with. We wrote a quick piece on it in PURSUIT: https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/do-we-think-about-anxiety-and-depression-differently-now
Jun 29, 2023