论文标题
新单词诞生的地方：Neologisms及其语义社区的分布语义分析
Where New Words Are Born: Distributional Semantic Analysis of Neologisms and Their Semantic Neighborhoods
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论文摘要
我们对Neology现象进行了统计分析，该过程是使用大型英语惯用语言的新单词以一种语言出现的过程。我们研究了两个因素的重要性，即语义邻居的语义稀疏性和频率增长速率，该邻居在分布语义范式中正式形式化。我们表明，这两个因素都可以预测单词出现，尽管我们发现了对后一种假设的更多支持。除了提出分布语义的新语言应用外，这项研究还解决了语言内部因素（在我们的情况下，稀疏性）在语言内部因素激发的语言变化中的作用（反映在频率增长中）。
We perform statistical analysis of the phenomenon of neology, the process by which new words emerge in a language, using large diachronic corpora of English. We investigate the importance of two factors, semantic sparsity and frequency growth rates of semantic neighbors, formalized in the distributional semantics paradigm. We show that both factors are predictive of word emergence although we find more support for the latter hypothesis. Besides presenting a new linguistic application of distributional semantics, this study tackles the linguistic question of the role of language-internal factors (in our case, sparsity) in language change motivated by language-external factors (reflected in frequency growth).
