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Towards mobile language evolution exploitation

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Knowing about the evolution of a term can significantly help when searching for relevant information, especially in case of sudden evolutions (e.g. as of dramatical changes in political situations). Here, some terms get a completely new meaning or are used in new or different ways. In mobile situations it is important to be able to effectively retrieve information, since this is usually done in a hurry and interaction possibilities with mobile devices are limited. In this paper we describe a methodology using word sense discrimination to discover term evolution. We present two mobile interfaces for easy access and exploration of this evolution, as well as a user-study to show its usefulness. We conclude the paper with an outlook of further research possibilities in this new topic.

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We would like to thank Times Newspapers Limited for providing the archive of The Times for our research.

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    Gideon Zenz, Nina Tahmasebi & Thomas Risse

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Correspondence to Gideon Zenz.

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This work is partly funded by the European Commission under ARCOMEM (IST 270239) and LiWA (IST 216267).

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Zenz, G., Tahmasebi, N. & Risse, T. Towards mobile language evolution exploitation. Multimed Tools Appl 66, 147–159 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-011-0973-0

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