Dynamics of Meaning: Towards the Evaluation of Diachronic Semantic Change in Sinhala

arXiv:2609.08609 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-08 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-08

Updated: 2026-10-01

Comments: 31 pages, 5 figures, 18 tables, Accepted paper at the 5th Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL) & the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP) 2026

Code: https://github.com/NeviduJ/Semantic-Change-Sinhala

Project page: https://fomafst.github.io

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Alignment — 70× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Embeddings — 64× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Semantic Drift — 27× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Perplexity — 18× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Orthogonal Procrustes — 10× in this paper
• European Language Resources Association — 8× in this paper
• Core — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Transformer — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pruning — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Similarity Matrix Based Alignment — 4× in this paper
• Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Low-Resource Languages — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Latent Space — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Negative Log-Likelihood — 2× in this paper
• Alignment Techniques — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Analyzer — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Bag of Words — 1× in this paper
• Bits Per Byte — 1× in this paper
• Causal Language Model — 1× in this paper
• Commentary — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Dynamic Filtering of Skip-Gram — 1× in this paper
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Incremental Skip-Gram — 1× in this paper
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Lexical Diversity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Pragmatics — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Singular Value Decomposition — 1× in this paper
• Sparsity — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Structural Integrity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transformer Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Survey on Publicly Available Sinhala Natural Language Processing Tools and Research
• Dynamic Bernoulli Embeddings for Language Evolution
• Survey of Computational Approaches to Lexical Semantic Change

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