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
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