A new CLARIN Resource Family for lexical semantic change - Final report

This document contains the final report of the project "A new CLARIN Resource Family for lexical semantic change research", funded by CLARIN-ERIC through the CLARIN Resource Families project for the period from 1/11/2022 to 30/06/2023.

Proposing team: Barbara McGillivray (King’s College London) and Fahad Khan (ILC-CNR).
Research assistant: Paola Marongiu (University of Neuchâtel).

The report describes the work done during the project and its outputs.
We first provide a concise introduction to the future CLARIN Resource Family (CRF). In this overview, we highlight the significance of the CRF for researchers studying Lexical Semantic Change (LSC). We delve into the structure of the future CRF, discussing the specific types of resources it should encompass. Furthermore, we explore the relevance of existing resources within CLARIN to this newly proposed CRF.

Next, we illustrate the following outputs:

1) Workflows: this section hosts the description of six different workflows that illustrate how the prospective
CRF can be a valuable resource in LSC research for different research fields. We illustrate examples from lexicology, legal studies, history, cultural history/history of ideas, lexicography, natural language processing.

2) A survey on the existing tools and resources for diachronic lexical semantic analyses

3) Preliminary guidelines for manual annotation of word senses in textual corpora

4) CLARIN Café (slides and tutorial document)