35.1 Preliminaries This chapter discusses how linguistic expressions may change their meaning over time. Actually the scope is a bit more limited than that, in the sense that here we will only see examples of how words  e.g. silly, very  change their meaning. The term 'linguistic expressions' includes words, but also larger grammatical constructions. Grammatical constructions  e.g. what in p...

The semantics of the linguistic modals is argued to be determined mainly by the power structure of the participants in the interaction. In the deontic uses of the modals, another determining factor is the expectations of the participants’ attitudes towards the relevant action. By viewing the evidence as a power in its own right, our analysis can be generalized to the epistemic uses in a coheren...

This article describes a compositional model based on syntactic dependencies which has been designed to build contextualized word vectors, by following linguistic principles related the concept of selectional preferences. The strategy proposed in current work evaluated syntactically controlled and multilingual dataset, compared with Transformer BERT-like models, such as Sentence BERT, state-of-...

This paper proposes a multi-label approach to detect emotion causes. The multi-label model not only detects multi-clause causes, but also captures the long-distance information to facilitate emotion cause detection. In addition, based on the linguistic analysis, we create two sets of linguistic patterns during feature extraction. Both manually generalized patterns and automatically generalized ...