Sean Murphy


2019

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Evaluation of Semantic Change of Harm-Related Concepts in Psychology
Ekaterina Vylomova | Sean Murphy | Nicholas Haslam
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change

The paper focuses on diachronic evaluation of semantic changes of harm-related concepts in psychology. More specifically, we investigate a hypothesis that certain concepts such as “addiction”, “bullying”, “harassment”, “prejudice”, and “trauma” became broader during the last four decades. We evaluate semantic changes using two models: an LSA-based model from Sagi et al. (2009) and a diachronic adaptation of word2vec from Hamilton et al. (2016), that are trained on a large corpus of journal abstracts covering the period of 1980– 2019. Several concepts showed evidence of broadening. “Addiction” moved from physiological dependency on a substance to include psychological dependency on gaming and the Internet. Similarly, “harassment” and “trauma” shifted towards more psychological meanings. On the other hand, “bullying” has transformed into a more victim-related concept and expanded to new areas such as workplaces.

2015

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Putting Feelings into Words: Cross-Linguistic Markers of the Referential Process
Sean Murphy | Bernard Maskit | Wilma Bucci
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality

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A Computer Program for Tracking the Evolution of a Psychotherapy Treatment
Bernard Maskit | Wilma Bucci | Sean Murphy
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality

2013

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Analysis of Cross-Institutional Medication Information Annotations in Clinical Notes
Sunghwan Sohn | Cheryl Clark | Scott Halgrim | Sean Murphy | Siddhartha Jonnalagadda | Kavishwar Wagholikar | Stephen Wu | Christopher Chute | Hongfang Liu
Proceedings of the IWCS 2013 Workshop on Computational Semantics in Clinical Text (CSCT 2013)