Barbara McGillivray

21 papers · 2010–2026 · 7 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🌍 Conference Polyglot (6) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🏃 Academic Marathon (15) 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (13) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (7) 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (28) 🧬 Topic Evolution 🏆 Keyword Champion (2) 🗃️ Keyword Collector (76) 💎 Century Club (19) ⚡ Prolific Year (5)

Conferences

ACL (5) COLING (5) EMNLP (4) IJCNLP (3) AACL (2) EACL (1) SEMEVAL (1)

Top co-authors

Chiara Di Bonaventura (4) Simon Hengchen (4) Nina Tahmasebi (3) Haim Dubossarsky (3) Giorgia Tolfo (3) Kaspar Beelen (3) Mariona Coll Ardanuy (3) Kasra Hosseini (3) Federico Nanni (3) Dominik Schlechtweg (3)

Keywords

semantic change detection (6) diachronic analysis (4) word embedding (4) word sense disambiguation (3) diachronic semantics (2) natural language processing (2) data paper (2) semantic change (2) historical language (2) information retrieval (2) unsupervised learning (2) bibliometric analysis (2) temporal analysis (2) research article (2) lexical semantics (2) text similarity (2) lexical semantic change (2) parallel corpus (1) offensive language detection (1) semantic analysis (1)

Papers

Sense-Based Annotation of Geographical Nouns in Ancient Greek and Latin: A Diachronic Study with LLMs EACL 2026

Finding the Paper Behind the Data: Automatic Identification of Research Articles related to Data Publications AACL 2025

Hatevolution: What Static Benchmarks Don’t Tell Us ACL 2025

An Annotation Protocol for Diachronic Evaluation of Semantic Drift in Disability Sources ACL 2025

From Detection to Explanation: Effective Learning Strategies for LLMs in Online Abusive Language Research COLING 2025

Finding the Paper Behind the Data: Automatic Identification of Research Articles related to Data Publications IJCNLP 2025

LLODIA: A Linguistic Linked Open Data Model for Diachronic Analysis COLING 2024

Language Pivoting from Parallel Corpora for Word Sense Disambiguation of Historical Languages: A Case Study on Latin COLING 2024

Machines in the media: semantic change in the lexicon of mechanization in 19th-century British newspapers AACL 2022

Leveraging time-dependent lexical features for offensive language detection EMNLP 2022

When Time Makes Sense: A Historically-Aware Approach to Targeted Sense Disambiguation IJCNLP 2021

DWUG: A large Resource of Diachronic Word Usage Graphs in Four Languages EMNLP 2021

When Time Makes Sense: A Historically-Aware Approach to Targeted Sense Disambiguation ACL 2021

SemEval-2020 Task 1: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change Detection SEMEVAL 2020

SemEval-2020 Task 1: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change Detection COLING 2020

Embedding Structured Dictionary Entries EMNLP 2020

Living Machines: A study of atypical animacy COLING 2020

GASC: Genre-Aware Semantic Change for Ancient Greek ACL 2019

Room to Glo: A Systematic Comparison of Semantic Change Detection Approaches with Word Embeddings EMNLP 2019

Room to Glo: A Systematic Comparison of Semantic Change Detection Approaches with Word Embeddings IJCNLP 2019

Automatic Selectional Preference Acquisition for Latin Verbs ACL 2010