Semantic Change Characterization with LLMs using Rhetorics

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Main Authors: de Sá, Jader Martins Camboim, Da Silveira, Marcos, Pruski, Cédric
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Published: 2024
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author de Sá, Jader Martins Camboim
Da Silveira, Marcos
Pruski, Cédric
author_facet de Sá, Jader Martins Camboim
Da Silveira, Marcos
Pruski, Cédric
contents Languages continually evolve in response to societal events, resulting in new terms and shifts in meanings. These changes have significant implications for computer applications, including automatic translation and chatbots, making it essential to characterize them accurately. The recent development of LLMs has notably advanced natural language understanding, particularly in sense inference and reasoning. In this paper, we investigate the potential of LLMs in characterizing three types of semantic change: dimension, relation, and orientation. We achieve this by combining LLMs' Chain-of-Thought with rhetorical devices and conducting an experimental assessment of our approach using newly created datasets. Our results highlight the effectiveness of LLMs in capturing and analyzing semantic changes, providing valuable insights to improve computational linguistic applications.
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spellingShingle Semantic Change Characterization with LLMs using Rhetorics
de Sá, Jader Martins Camboim
Da Silveira, Marcos
Pruski, Cédric
Computation and Language
Languages continually evolve in response to societal events, resulting in new terms and shifts in meanings. These changes have significant implications for computer applications, including automatic translation and chatbots, making it essential to characterize them accurately. The recent development of LLMs has notably advanced natural language understanding, particularly in sense inference and reasoning. In this paper, we investigate the potential of LLMs in characterizing three types of semantic change: dimension, relation, and orientation. We achieve this by combining LLMs' Chain-of-Thought with rhetorical devices and conducting an experimental assessment of our approach using newly created datasets. Our results highlight the effectiveness of LLMs in capturing and analyzing semantic changes, providing valuable insights to improve computational linguistic applications.
title Semantic Change Characterization with LLMs using Rhetorics
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16624