ABSTRACT “Concept creep” is the gradual semantic expansion of harm-related concepts
such as bullying, mental disorder, prejudice, and trauma. This review presents a synopsis of …

Understanding how words change their meanings over time is key to models of language
and cultural evolution, but historical data on meaning is scarce, making theories hard to …

One way that languages are able to communicate a potentially infinite set of ideas through a
finite lexicon is by compressing emerging meanings into words, such that over time …

Metaphors and other tropes are commonly thought to reflect asymmetries in concreteness,
with concrete sources being used to talk about relatively more abstract targets. Similarly …

Languages change due to social, cultural, and cognitive influences. In this paper, we
provide an assessment of these cognitive influences on diachronic change in the …

Recent years witnessed significant progressin many downstream tasks in natural language
processing (NLP) such as machine translation, part-of-speech tagging, language modelling …

Computers are now able to automatically generate metaphors, but some automatically
generated metaphors are more well received than others. In this article, we showed …

There exist biases in individual's language use; the same word (eg, cool) is used for
expressing different meanings (eg, temperature range) or different words (eg, cloudy, hazy) …

In this study, we use temporally aligned word embeddings and a large diachronic corpus of
English to quantify language change in a data‐driven, scalable way, which is grounded in …

For the accurate scientific evaluation and advancement of science, it is crucial to understand
the development state of a given disciplinary domain. Existing comprehension …