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Change is Key! now on Huggingface

We have started releasing models and datasets on Huggingface. Check us out at https://huggingface.co/ChangeIsKey !

Aug 16, 2023 1 min read

Bill Noble is joining Change is Key!

Bill Noble is joining Change is Key! as a researcher. In May, he completed his PhD with the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP) at the University of Gothenburg, where he worked on semantic change in interaction.

Aug 1, 2023 1 min read

Diachronic Semantics and Lexical Variation

Dirk Geeraerts gave this course introducing diachronic (lexical) semantics to an international audience of PhD students. Descriptively speaking, the course integrated a semasiological and an onomasiological perspective and theoretically speaking, it explored the impact of cognitive linguistics on historical semantics.

Jul 10, 2023 1 min read

We are presenting at DH2023

We are pleased to announce the acceptance of a paper titled “Going to the market together: A presentation of a mixed methods project” by Claes Ohlsson, Shafqat Mumtaz Virk, Henrik Björck, Leif Runefelt, and Nina Tahmasebi in the project “The market language”, which is one of the associated projects of the ChangeIsKey.

Jul 10, 2023 1 min read

Forskare i språkteknologi/ data science, PAR 2023/425 https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=6&lang=SE&validator=3038fcf1516ea1184a6da70a891f87da&job_id=29780 Researcher in Natural Language Processing / Data science, PAR 2023/425 https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89bead79bb7258ad55c8d75228e5b7&job_id=29973 Projektassistent, en eller flera - intermittent anställning, PAR 2023/468 https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=6&lang=SE&validator=3038fcf1516ea1184a6da70a891f87da&job_id=29925

Apr 18, 2023 1 min read

David Alfter is joining as postdoc

David Alfter joins the project as a postdoc. David received his PhD in Language Technology in 2021 from the University of Gothenburg and has been working as postdoc in Belgium from 2021 to 2023.

Mar 1, 2023 1 min read

Francesco Periti is visiting us

Francesco Periti is visiting us in Gothenburg during the spring semester. Francesco is a 2nd-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science, from the University of Milan interested in Computational Approaches for Lexical Semantic Change Detection (LSCD).

Feb 22, 2023 1 min read

Pierluigi Cassotti is visiting us

Pierluigi Cassotti is visiting us in Gothenburg during the spring semester. He is a 3rd-year Ph.D. student from the University of Bari interested in Computational Approaches for Lexical Semantic Change Detection (LSCD).

Feb 12, 2023 1 min read

2-year Postdoc position in Change is Key!

We seek a postdoc for a 2-year position at the University of Gothenburg for semantic change detection across multiple time points.

Oct 25, 2022 8 min read

The Change is Key! Programme (https://changeiskey.org/) and the Towards Computational Lexical Semantic Change Detection project (https://languagechange.org/) are offering up to three internships for PhD students and postdocs working on computational models for semantic change.

Jun 13, 2022 2 min read