DIACR-Ita @ EVALITA2020: Overview of the EVALITA2020 Diachronic Lexical Semantics (DIACR-Ita) Task
Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Tommaso Caselli, Pierluigi Cassotti, Rossella Varvara
Abstract
This paper describes the first edition of the “Diachronic Lexical Semantics” (DIACR-Ita) task at the EVALITA 2020 campaign. The task challenges participants to develop systems that can automatically detect if a given word has changed its meaning over time, given contextual information from corpora. The task, at its first edition, attracted 9 participant teams and collected a total of 36 submission runs.
Topics & Concepts
Task (project management)Lexical semanticsComputer scienceSemantics (computer science)LinguisticsMeaning (existential)Natural language processingWord (group theory)Lexical itemArtificial intelligencePsychologyProgramming languageEngineeringPhilosophySystems engineeringPsychotherapistNatural Language Processing TechniquesTopic ModelingLanguage and cultural evolution