In this paper, I first consider a famous objection that the standard interpretation of the Lockean account of diachronicity (i.e., one’s sense of personal identity over time) via psychological connectedness falls prey to breaks in one’s personal narrative. I argue that recent case studies show that while this critique may hold with regard to some long-term autobiographical self-knowledge (e.g.,...

The impact-es diachronic corpus of historical Spanish compiles over one hundred books —containing approximately 8 million words— in addition to a complementary lexicon which links more than 10 thousand lemmas with attestations of the different variants found in the documents. This textual corpus and the accompanying lexicon have been released under an open license (Creative Commons by-nc-sa) in...

In this paper we describe a novel task, namely the Diachronic Text Evaluation task. A corpus of snippets which contain relevant information for the time when the text was created is extracted from a large collection of newspapers published between 1700 and 2010. The task, subdivided in three subtasks, requires the automatic system to identify the time interval when the piece of news was written...

English. In this paper, we propose several methods for the diachronic analysis of the Italian language. We build several models by exploiting Temporal Random Indexing and the Google Ngram dataset for the Italian language. Each proposed method is evaluated on the ability to automatically identify meaning shift over time. To this end, we introduce a new dataset built by looking at the etymologica...