https://grafemas.net/tags/diachronic/ Recent content in diachronic on Γραφεμας Hugo -- gohugo.io en Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://grafemas.net/blog/race/embedding-explorer/ Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://grafemas.net/blog/race/embedding-explorer/ The analyses published in this series have relied on word2vec models trained on a lemmatized ancient Greek corpus, sliced by century from the 8th to the 1st BCE. The tool embedded below makes those models directly explorable. The Neighbourhood Browser returns the nearest neighbours of any lemma across one or more century models simultaneously, so you can see how a term’s distributional company changes over time. The Similarity Probe takes a focal term and a user-defined concept list and returns a colour-coded cosine-similarity table across selected models — this is the view underlying most of the quantitative claims in the series. https://grafemas.net/blog/race/diachronic-embeddings/ Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://grafemas.net/blog/race/diachronic-embeddings/ The four previous notes in this series used per-author fastText models to compare how βάρβαρος is distributed across the vocabularies of Herodotus, Euripides, Plato, and Xenophon. The CADE (Compass-Aligned Distributional Embeddings) framework extends that analysis longitudinally: a compass model trained on the full ancient Greek corpus serves as an alignment anchor, and separate models are trained on century-sliced sub-corpora — 6BC through 1BC in this dataset. The century slices allow a question the per-author models cannot answer: whether the differences between Herodotus and Plato are specific to those authors or representative of their periods.