The BD-LSC Dataset: Facilitating the Benchmarking of Models for Lexical Semantic Change Detection in Slang and Standard Usage

The BD-LSC dataset introduces a bi‑directional lexical semantic change benchmark that tracks sense gain, loss, and stability across three time periods, while the ST‑WSD dataset offers fine‑grained, instance‑level sense annotations for words that blend slang and standard usage. These resources enable systematic evaluation of diverse models—including unsupervised clustering, supervised learning, transformer‑based approaches, and large language models—on tasks such as exact sense matching and multi‑label accuracy. The evaluation shows that few‑shot GPT‑4o performs best overall, yet all systems struggle with rare slang senses, highlighting a key open challenge in the field.

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