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    "abstract": "Just as the meaning of words is tied to the communities in which they are used, so too is semantic change. But how does lexical semantic change manifest differently across different communities? In this work, we investigate the relationship between community structure and semantic change in 45 communities from the social media website Reddit. We use distributional methods to quantify lexical semantic change and induce a social network on communities, based on interactions between members. We explore the relationship between semantic change and the clustering coefficient of a community's social network graph, as well as community size and stability. While none of these factors are found to be significant on their own, we report a significant effect of their three-way interaction. We also report on significant wordlevel effects of frequency and change in frequency, which replicate previous findings.",
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                "text": "Just as the meaning of words is tied to the communities in which they are used, so too is semantic change. But how does lexical semantic change manifest differently across different communities? In this work, we investigate the relationship between community structure and semantic change in 45 communities from the social media website Reddit. We use distributional methods to quantify lexical semantic change and induce a social network on communities, based on interactions between members. We explore the relationship between semantic change and the clustering coefficient of a community's social network graph, as well as community size and stability. While none of these factors are found to be significant on their own, we report a significant effect of their three-way interaction. We also report on significant wordlevel effects of frequency and change in frequency, which replicate previous findings.",
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                "text": "The mechanisms and patterns of semantic change have a long history of study in linguistics (e.g., Paul, 1886; Bloomfield, 1933; Blank, 1999) . However, historical accounts of semantic change typically consider meaning at the language level and, as Clark (1996) points out, referring to Lewis's (1969) account of convention, the meaning of a word \"does not hold for a word simpliciter, but for a word in a particular community\". This gives rise questions of how semantic change manifests differently in different communities. In this work, we explore relationship between semantic change and several community characteristics, including social network structure.",
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                "text": "Social network analysis has long been a tool of sociolinguists studying variation and change (e.g., Bloomfield, 1933; Milroy and Milroy, 1985; Eckert, 1988) , but our work differs somewhat from that tradition in both methodology and focus. Sociolinguists typically work with the social networks of individuals-their ego networks-how many people each speaker is connected to, what kind of relationships they have and, sometimes, how people in their immediate network are connected to each other. The ego network is convenient for sociolinguists using ethnographic methods; it is usually infeasible to recreate the entire social network of a large community (Sharma and Dodsworth, 2020) . By studying online communities, we are able to define and compute several community-level structural characteristics including size, stability, and social network clustering (Section 5).",
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                "text": "Another way that our work differs from the variationist approach is that we consider change on the level of meaning. With a few exceptions (e.g., Hasan, 2009) , sociolinguistic research studies variation in linguistic form (phonology, morphology and syntax). Indeed, mainstream sociolinguists have expressed skepticism that semantics can be a proper subject of variational analysis at all (Lavandera, 1978; Weiner and Labov, 1983) , since the received definition of linguistic variation concerns multiple forms expressing the same content-i.e., different ways of saying the same thing. With semantics at the top of the traditional linguistic hierarchy, there is no higher-order constant to which two meanings can refer. In this work, we instead consider semantic shift, which refers to changes in the meaning of a given lexical form (Newman, 2015) .",
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                "text": "For more traditional sociolinguistic variables, social indexicality-the association of a variant with social identities and ideology-is the main factor that mediates diffusion (Eckert, 2019) . Since semantic variation can itself carry social and idealogical meaning (Hasan, 2009) , there is good reason to think that it may be sensitive to some of the same aspects of community structure.",
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                "text": "The focus on semantic shift is also made possible by computational methodology-we model word meaning with distributional semantics (Section 4), which allows us to quantify short-term lexical semantic shifts at the community level.",
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                "text": "In this study, we model the social networks of 45 English-language communities from the social media website Reddit, 1 and use diachronic word vectors to measure semantic change between two time periods one year apart. Then, we use a multistage linear mixed effects statistical model to test the effect of various community features on wordlevel semantic change.",
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                "text": "In this section, we review work that uses computational methods to study linguistic variation and change in social context.",
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                "text": "Distributional semantics Distributional methods, which model the meaning of a word with the contexts in which it appears, are a popular way to detect and quantify semantic change. 2 Several recent studies use distributional semantics to examine short-term semantic shift at the community level. Azarbonyad et al. (2017) use diachronic word vectors to study semantic change in political and media discourse, including in UK parliamentary debates, finding that word meaning changes differently depending on the political viewpoint of the speaker. Stewart et al. (2017) use diachronic word vectors to measure semantic change in the VKontakte social network during the Russia-Ukriaine crisis and find that changes in word frequency are predictive of semantic shift. Del Tredici et al. (2019) studied short-term semantic shift in the /r/LiverpoolFC community on Reddit, empirically validating the diachronic word vector model proposed by Kim et al. (2014) by correlating cosine distance between vectors from two different time periods with semantic change judgments collected from members of the community. In another study Del Tredici and Fern\u00e1ndez (2017) find variations in word meaning across different Reddit communities, including communities organized around the same topic.",
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                "text": "In an early example of using social network analysis to study the language online communities, Paolillo (1999) categorizes the relationships of users of an IRC channel as strong or weak ties, based on interaction frequency. They find that tie strength predicts the use of some online and community-specific forms but not others and conjecture that this difference is related the social meaning of those forms. Kooti et al. (2012) examined early Twitter conventions for attributing the source tweet to someone else (i.e., indicating that it is a retweet). They examined social network features, such as the size of a user's ego network, but did not find such features to be very predictive of convention adoption compared to global trends.",
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                "text": "Communication games in a laboratory setting have also been used to examine the effect of social network structure on linguistic change. Raviv et al. (2019) quantified the communicative success, systematicity and stability of languages developed by \"communities\" of participants, but did not find a significant effect across the three different network structures that were tested. Lev-Ari 2018found that individuals with larger real-world ego networks had less malleable semantic representations in the lab, and use computer simulations to argue that individuals with smaller ego networks therefore play an important role in the communitylevel propagation of linguistic change.",
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                "text": "To investigate semantic change in different communities, we use comments collected from the social media website Reddit. 3 On Reddit, users create posts, which consist of a link, image, or user-generated text, along with a comment section. Comments are threaded: users can comment on the post or reply to another user's comment.",
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                "text": "Reddit is divided into forums called subreddits, which are typically organized around a topic of interest. While some forums-especially those organized around relatively niche topics-have a small tightly-knit community of users, others have a much looser community structure, with any given user posting and commenting infrequently.",
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                "text": "Our dataset consists of comments from 45 randomly selected subreddits that were active in the years 2015-2017. In addition to the subreddit corpora, we created a generic Reddit corpus, consisting of comments sampled from every subreddit, including communities not in our sample. For both the generic corpus and the community-specific corpora, we constructed separate datasets for 2015 and 2017, leaving a one-year gap between them.",
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                "text": "The generic corpus consists of 55M comments for 2015 and 54M for 2017. For each of the selected subreddits, we sampled comments from 2015 and 2017 to construct two datasets of 5.4M tokens each (averaging 158K comments). 4",
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                "text": "In this section, we describe how we quantify semantic change. We adopt a modeling procedure similar to that of Del Tredici et al. 2019, which is adapted from Kim et al. (2014) 's diachronic skip-gram with negative sampling (SGNS) model (Section 4.1). We define na\u00efve cosine change for the communityspecific and \"generic\" lexicons (Section 4.2). In Section 4.3, we use a control procedure adapted from Dubossarsky and Weinshall (2017) to account for noise in the na\u00efve metric.",
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                "text": "The strategy laid out by Kim et al. (2014) is to train a standard skip-gram language model on a corpus from some time period t 0 , and then for each subsequent time period t n+1 , initialize a model with the same architecture with word vectors from time period t n . 5 Del Tredici et al. (2019) adapts this procedure for a low-data setting by first training a base model on some large corpus, and initializing the t 0 model with vectors from that model. We follow the same framework. We train a base model, M G,2015 , on the generic 2015 corpus. Then, for each community, c, M c,2015 is initialized with word vectors from M G,2015 and trained on the communityspecific 2015 corpus. Then, M c,2017 is initialized from M c,2015 and trained on the communityspecific 2017 corpus. Additionally, we train a generic 2017 model, M G,2017 , which is initialized from M G,2015 and trained on the generic 2017 corpus. See the supplementary materials for details on vocabulary and skip-gram model hyperparameters.",
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                "text": "4 See Appendix A and B for details on community selection and data preprocessing.",
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                "text": "Code for downloading the data and the running experiments can be found at https://github.com/GU-CLASP/ semantic-shift-in-social-networks.",
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                "text": "5 It is not clear in the original paper if the tn+1 model is initialized with only the word vectors from the previous time period, or if internal weights and context vectors are included as well. It seems that most subsequent implementations only carry over the word vector weights, though, which allows for more flexibility with the vocabulary. We follow this approach.",
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                "text": "Generally speaking, na\u00efve cosine change has a strong track record as a semantic change metric, performing well in both human-annotated and synthetic evaluations (Hamilton et al., 2016b; Shoemark et al., 2019; Schlechtweg et al., 2020) . Especially relevant to this work, Del Tredici et al. 2019found cosine change to correlate with aggregated semantic change judgments collected from members of the /r/LiverpoolFC community on Reddit.",
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                "text": "We adapt the shuffle control condition described by Dubossarsky and Weinshall (2017) to address this problem. For each subreddit, we shuffle the 2015 and 2017 corpora together and split them randomly to create pseudo-diachronic corpora with two \"time periods\". Then, we train diachronic SGNS models just as before, including initializing the \"first\" model with word vectors from M G,2015 . We do this n = 10 times for each community, giving us, for each sample i, and each vocabulary item w, a pseudo-na\u00efve cosine change, cos c,i (w). Since no genuine change can possibly have taken place between the shuffled corpora, cos c,i (w) is a sample from the noise distribution that contributes to w's na\u00efve cosine change, based purely on the nosiness of its context distribution in c.",
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                "text": "We perform this same procedure with the generic change models (shuffling together the generic 2015 and 2017 corpora) and define generic rectified change, \u21e4 G , analogously. Rectified change is a measure of how much higher (or lower) the measured na\u00efve cosine change is than would be expected if the word's underlying context distribution hadn't changed at all. In other words, it quantifies the strength of the evidence that the word has changed. In our setup with 10 samples from the noise distribution, rectified change scores above 4.781 correspond to a 99.95% confidence that the change detected by the diachronic SGNS model was genuine. In addition to the analytical reasons for preferring rectified change and previous empirical work on historical change, we note that the highest scoring words for each community in our data are intuitively more varied and community-specific for rectified change. The na\u00efve cosine change frequently ranks words with some kind of rhetorical or discourse connective function as the having changed the most (see Table 1 for examples).",
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                "text": "This work was supported by grant 2014-39 from the Swedish Research Council (VR) for the establishment of the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP) at the University of Gothenburg. This work was also supported by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation grant 2019.0214 for the Gothenburg Research Initiative for Politically Emergent Systems (GRIPES). This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 819455 Awarded to RF).",
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