Synthetic-LSC pipeline
Outputs LLM-generated synthetic sentences (‘Scholar-in-the-loop’ In-Context-Learning approach) to simulate dimensions of LSC.
Apr 5, 2025
A Multidimensional Framework for Evaluating Lexical Semantic Change with Social Science Applications
This study proposes a computational framework to evaluate lexical semantic change in a way that economically integrates forms identified by historical linguists and uses it to analyze semantic shifts in mental health and mental illness.
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