Invited Talk - Dimensions of Semantic Change: Validation and Application of the SIBling Framework
An invited talk at the National Research Council Canada on SIBling and LSC-Eval as complementary frameworks for modeling and evaluating semantic change across time.
Sep 24, 2025
Invited Talk - Dimensions of Semantic Change: Validation and Application of the SIBling Framework
A research talk at Change is Key! Conference (University of Gothenburg, Dept. of Philosophy, Linguistics & Theory of Science) on applying SIBling and LSC-Eval to trace semantic shifts in mental health concepts in historical corpora.
Sep 12, 2025
SIBling
Source code to evaluate key dimensions of lexical semantic change concurrently (SIB) and complementary dimensions (salience and thematic content).
Aug 5, 2025
A Multidimensional Framework for Evaluating Lexical Semantic Change with Social Science Applications
The foundational SIBling presentation, introducing a multidimensional framework for modeling lexical semantic change across Sentiment, Intensity, and Breadth.
Aug 14, 2024
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
What should we call mental ill health? Historical shifts in the popularity of generic terms
We wrote a piece on our study in THE CONVERSATION: https://theconversation.com/mental-illness-psychiatric-disorder-or-psychological-problem-what-should-we-call-mental-distress-226748?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1717543647-1
Jun 4, 2024
The structure and evolution of social psychology: a co-citation network analysis
May 15, 2024
A search for commonalities in defining the common good: Using folk theories to unlock shared conceptions
We wrote a piece on the study in THE CONVERSATION: https://theconversation.com/what-does-the-common-good-actually-mean-our-research-found-common-ground-across-the-political-divide-220843
Jan 2, 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