Language & Technology
Language & Technology
EP01 | Why study semantic change?
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EP01 | Why study semantic change?

How did we go from bananas (🍌) to bananas (🤪)? And gay (😄) to gay (🌈)? To answer these questions and more, here we interview Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb

Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb is an Associate Professor/Lecturer in English Linguistics and Corpus linguistics and an expert on text mining and data analytics for research questions from sociolinguistics, register/language variation as well as change in language use. She is Principal Investigator of the project Information Density in English Scientific Writing: A Diachronic Perspective in the Information Density and Linguistic Encoding collaborative research centre, and of two projects at the MSCA doctoral network Computational Analysis of Semantic Change Across Different Environments (CASCADE).

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