A Computational Approach to Measuring Semantic Change in Sanskrit Literature

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arXiv:2609.25012v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diachronic word embeddings have become the modern standard for tracking semantic change, yet they have been largely validated on modern, high-resource, and well-segmented languages. This paper tests whether the paradigm transfers to Sanskrit, an ancient, low-resource language whose phonological fusion (sandhi), morphological inflection, compounding, and polysemy pose a unique challenge. I assemble a 2.7M-token corpus spanning four canonical periods