Chris Jenkins — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

Multi-word Measures: Modeling Semantic Change in Compound Nouns

Chris Jenkins, Filip Miletić, Sabine Schulte Im Walde

ACL 2025finding

Compound words (e.g. shower thought) provide a multifaceted challenge for diachronic models of semantic change. Datasets describing noun compound semantics tend to describe only the predominant sense of a compound, which is limiting, especially in diachronic settings where senses may shift over time…

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2024

What Can Diachronic Contexts and Topics Tell Us about the Present-Day Compositionality of English Noun Compounds?

Samin Mahdizadeh Sani, Malak Rassem, Chris Jenkins, Filip Miletić, Sabine Schulte im Walde

COLING 2024main

Predicting the compositionality of noun compounds such as climate change and tennis elbow is a vital component in natural language understanding. While most previous computational methods that automatically determine the semantic relatedness between compounds and their constituents have applied a sy…

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