Semantic Change Detection for the Romanian Language

Language is in a continuous process of change that occurs permanently, language change being the phenomenon that drives language evolution, as a process of adaptation to the environment and the ways other speakers use the language [3, 2]. The various instances of language change are classified into different categories, such as regular phonetic changes, changes in word usage, and changes in the way words appear together, i.e., syntactic changes. Although it is usually a continuous process that follows regular patterns, very abrupt changes in the meanings of words can still occur, usually motivated by a change in the context a community lives in [15, 9, 7]. Semantic change, as a phenomenon permanently present in language evolution, is an important aspect that should be taken into account when working with historical data[1]. Historical linguists, lexical typologists, and other humanities and social science experts have studied the meaning of words and how it changes over time.