Biography
I am a PhD student in Cognitive Science and Linguistics and my research focuses on semantic change in a micro-diachronic perspective. It is corpus based and relies on the geometrical model of the Semantic Atlases. I am interested in the distributional dynamics of conceptual networks across lexical items and over time as well as in the internal conceptual structure of words. I am also interested in the relationship between sound, form and semantic content. I look at language as a pattern based system and try to elucidate some of these patterns on the basis of corpus analysis.
I am presently looking at the relationship between graphical representations and linguistic phenomena with Anne-Lyse Renon. Our first explorations can be found here: http://dico.isc.cnrs.fr/en/diachro.html
Publications
Armelle Boussidan, Sabine Ploux, 2011.
Using Topic Salience and Connotational Drifts to Detect Candidates to Semantic Change.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2011), Oxford, UK. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W11/W11-0134.pdf
Boussidan, A., Renon, A.L., Franco, C., Lupone, S. & Ploux, S. (in press).
Vers une méthode de visualisation graphique dynamique de la diachronie des néologies. Colloque néologie sémantique et corpus, une rencontre de méthode. Tübingen, Allemagne, avril 2010.
Sabine Ploux, Armelle Boussidan and Hyungsuk Ji. 2010.
The Semantic Atlas: an Interactive Model of Lexical Representation. Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10), may 2010, Valletta, Malta.
Boussidan, A. Lupone, S. Ploux, S. 2009.
La malbouffe : un cas de néologie et de glissement sémantique fulgurants. Atelier "Du thème au terme, émergence et lexicalisation des connaissances" 8 ème conférence internationale Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle, Toulouse, 20 nov 2009.
Boussidan, A. Sagi, E. & Ploux, S. 2009.
Phonaesthemic and Etymological effects on the Distribution of Senses in Statistical Models of Semantics. Proceedings of the Distributional Semantics beyond Concrete Concepts Workshop. Part of the 31th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.