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statistical laws of semantic change: a standalone construct

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regularities in how word meanings shift over time: frequent words change more slowly and polysemous words change faster.

In digital humanities, statistical laws of semantic change refers to regularities in how word meanings shift over time: frequent words change more slowly and polysemous words change faster. This meaning comes from Hamilton (2016) in Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers).[1]

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  1. Hamilton, W. L., Leskovec, J., & Jurafsky, D. (2016). Diachronic Word Embeddings Reveal Statistical Laws of Semantic Change. Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/p16-1141

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