Word Usage Change and the Pandemic: A Computational Analysis of Short-Term Usage Change in the Italian Reddit Community
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every aspect of our lives. Our work assesses whether it has also impacted the usage of the Italian language, particularly its lexicon. We create a new corpus of Italian texts taken from Reddit and apply a recent unsupervised usage change detection method on two sub...
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IJCoL
2023
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Tóm tắt: | The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every aspect of our lives. Our work assesses whether it has also impacted the usage of the Italian language, particularly its lexicon. We create a new corpus of Italian texts taken from Reddit and apply a recent unsupervised usage change detection method on two sub-corpora, one with data from 2019 and one with data from 2020. The focus of our investigation is short-term usage change. The results for the first 10-top candidates and for a selection of candidates among the top-100 are analyzed, to show that usage change has indeed happened. |
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