Visualising linguistic evolution in academic discourse

  • Authors:

  • Verena Lyding;Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb;Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski;Henrik Dittmann;Christopher Culy

  • Affiliations:

  • European Academy of Bolzano-Bozen;Saarland University;Saarland University;European Academy of Bolzano-Bozen;The University of Tübingen

  • Venue:
  • EACL 2012 Proceedings of the EACL 2012 Joint Workshop of LINGVIS & UNCLH
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The present paper describes procedures to visualise diachronic language changes in academic discourse to support analysis. These changes are reflected in the distribution of different lexico-grammatical features according to register. Findings about register differences are relevant for both linguistic applications (e.g., discourse analysis and translation studies) and NLP tasks (notably automatic text classification).