TempoWiC: An Evaluation Benchmark for Detecting Meaning Shift in Social Media

Understand

Language evolves over time, and word meaning changes accordingly.

• This is especially true in social media, since its dynamic nature leads to faster semantic shifts, making it challenging for NLP models to deal with new content and trends.
• However, the number of datasets and models that specifically address the dynamic nature of these social platforms is scarce.
• To bridge this gap, we present TempoWiC, a new benchmark especially aimed at accelerating research in social media-based meaning shift.