BibTeX

@inProceedings{skoldberg-etal-2024-revealing-341866,
	title        = {Revealing Semantic Variation in Swedish Using Computational Models of
Semantic Proximity–Results From Lexicographical Experiments},
	abstract     = {The paper reports a pilot study on the detection of lexical semantic variation in
modern Swedish. The starting point of the study is the meaning descriptions of around 65,000
headwords in ’The Contemporary Dictionary of the Swedish Academy’ (SO, 2021) covering
approximately 100,000 different senses. In our work, we aim to explore the potential of the
latest computational methods to discover outdated definitions in SO and update them. For
this, we make use of the DURel tool (Schlechtweg et al., 2018, 2024) which relies on state-
of-the-art language models for the automatic semantic analysis of word usages. The work
resulted in drawing lexicographers’ attention to both main senses and subsenses that should
be added to the dictionary. It has also demonstrated that certain meaning descriptions in SO
are too general and should be split in accordance with the current principles for the semantic
descriptions in the dictionary.},
	booktitle    = {Lexicography and Semantics. Proceedings of the XXI EURALEX International Congress 8–12 October 2024 Cavtat, Croatia (eds. Kristina Š. Despot, Ana Ostroški Anić & Ivana Brač )},
	author       = {Sköldberg, Emma and Virk, Shafqat and Sander, Pauline and Hengchen, Simon and Schlechtweg, Dominik},
	year         = {2024},
	publisher    = {Institut za hrvatski jezik},
	ISBN         = {978‐953‐7967‐77‐2},
}