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Simple, Interpretable and Stable Method for Detecting Words with Usage Change across Corpora

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The problem of comparing two bodies of text and searching for words that differ in their usage between them arises often in digital humanities and computational social science. This is commonly approached by training word embeddings on each corpus, aligning the vector spaces, and looking for words whose cosine distance in the aligned space is large. However, these methods often require extensive filtering of the vocabulary to perform well, and-as we show in this work-result in unstable, and hence less reliable, results. We propose an alternative approach that does not use vector space alignment, and instead considers the neighbors of each word. The method is simple, interpretable and stable. We demonstrate its effectiveness in 9 different setups, considering different corpus splitting criteria (age, gender and profession of tweet authors, time of tweet) and different languages (English, French and Hebrew).
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hal-03161637 , version 1 (07-03-2021)

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Hila Gonen, Ganesh Jawahar, Djamé Seddah, Yoav Goldberg. Simple, Interpretable and Stable Method for Detecting Words with Usage Change across Corpora. ACL 2020 - 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Jul 2020, Seattle / Virtual, United States. pp.538-555, ⟨10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.51⟩. ⟨hal-03161637⟩

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