Geriatric neologism

The neodymium neologism.

In 1838, Swedish chemist Carl Mosander isolated lanthanum, a new metal that had been hiding in Berzelius’ cerium since 18031. Two years later, he found yet another metal in cerium — this third component was responsible for a purplish hue in his samples2. He named this metal didymium, from a Greek word meaning twin. Didymium shared many chemical properties with lanthanum and thus appeared to be ...

Neologism: Easy Vocabulary Publishing

Creating, documenting, publishing and maintaining an RDF Schema vocabulary is a complex, time-consuming task. This makes vocabulary maintainers reluctant to evolve their creations quickly in response to user feedback; it prevents use of RDF for casual, ad-hoc data publication about niche topics; it leads to poorly documented vocabularies, and contributes to poor compliance of vocabularies with ...

Pseudo-Malignancy: A Defensible Neologism?

Dynamic EM in Neologism Evolution

Research on unsupervised word sense discrimination typically ignores a notable dynamic aspect, whereby the prevalence of a word sense varies over time, to the point that a given word (such as ’tweet’) can acquire a new usage alongside a pre-existing one (such as ’a Twitter post’ alongside ’a bird noise’). This work applies unsupervised methods to text collections within which such neologisms ca...

Skaplonking: Neologism and Euphemism for Plagiarism