A heightened interest in the presence of the past has given rise to the new field of memory studies, but there is a lack of search and research tools to support studying how and why the past is evoked in diachronic discourses. Searching for temporal references is not straightforward. It entails bridging the gap between conceptuallybased information needs on one side, and term-based inverted ind...

There are many digitized historical German texts from all periods (Old High German to Modern German). It is, however, difficult to carry out diachronic research because o there are differences in digitzation source (original or edition) o there are differences in digitization quality o the texts are stored in different (and, sometimes, incompatible) formats o many texts are not publicly availab...

Recent studies have shown that word embedding models can be used to trace timerelated (diachronic) semantic shifts for particular words. In this paper, we evaluate some of these approaches on the new task of predicting the dynamics of global armed conflicts on a year-to-year basis, using a dataset from the field of conflict research as the gold standard and the Gigaword news corpus as the train...

!e study is concerned with the contribution of synchronic consonant-on-vowel coarticulation to the diachronic fronting of high back vowels. !e "rst part of the paper makes use of an empirical analysis of German vowels to explain why high back vowels are more likely to front diachronically than high front vowels are to retract. !is study is then linked to the changing coarticulatory relationship...

Continuous news streams provide valuable and time-critical information across a range of financial market stakeholders. The large volume of such news makes it important to extract information automatically from these data nurseries. In many cases it is essential to repeatedly process a large news archive as and when news arrives and it has to be reconciled with what has happened in the past. An...

This study presents a view of diachronic change in language, according to which one of the fundamental factors motivating syntactic change is to be found in the conflicting interaction of principles determining the language organization. Specifically, it will be argued that principles of structural nature and principles of perceptual nature are in conflict in languages of the SOV type, because ...

English. In this work, we present an experiment in the modeling of a diachronic termino-ontological resource named CLAVIUS through both the N-ary relations model and the 4D-fluents approach. Some of the salient differences of these two models are discussed. The overall objective of this research is to illustrate the main advantages and disadvantages in the adoption of a given model to build dia...

This paper introduces a design for the taxonomical representation of participants’ instantial meaningmaking, as the basis for providing a measure of ambiguity and contestation. We use hyponymy and meronymy as the basis for our taxonomies and adopt the System Network formalism as the basis for their representation. We achieve an integration of transcript and taxonomy using an XML based ‘satellit...

The Linked Data paradigm involves practices to publish, share, and connect data on the Web. Thus, it is a compelling approach for the dissemination and re-use of scientific data, realizing the vision of the so-called Linked Science. However, by just converting legacy scientific data as Linked Data, we do not fully meet the requirements of data re-use. Scientific data is evolving data. To ensure...

This study from the area of language variation and change is based on exploitation of the comparable diachronic and synchronic corpora of 20th century British and American English language (the ‘Brown family’ of corpora). We investigate recent changes of lexical density and lexical richness in two consecutive thirty-year time gaps in British English (1931–1961 and 1961–1991) and in 1961–1992 in...