Detecting New Word Meanings: A Comparison of Word Embedding Models in Spanish

Understand

Semantic neologisms (SN) are defined as words that acquire a new word meaning while maintaining their form.

• Given the nature of this kind of neologisms, the task of identifying these new word meanings is currently performed manually by specialists at observatories of neology.
• To detect SN in a semi-automatic way, we developed a system that implements a combination of the following strategies: topic modeling, keyword extraction, and word sense disambiguation.
• The role of topic modeling is to detect the themes that are treated in the input text.