RuShiftEval: a shared task on semantic shift detection for Russian

Abstract

We present the first shared task on diachronic word meaning change detection for the Russian. The participating systems were provided with three sub-corpora of the Russian National Corpus -corresponding to pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet periods respectively -and a set of approximately one hundred Russian nouns. The task was to rank those nouns according to the degrees of their meaning change between periods.