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A CADE Misclassifications

We report in Tables 2 and 3 CADE’s misclassifications with the two best metrics, namely CADE (move) with λ = 0.3 and CADE (ln). Eventually, we also show in Tables 4 and 5 some examples of neighborhood for the target words.

Table 4 shows the top 10 nearest neighbors of the target word “pacchetto" and we think CADE classifies its meaning as changed because during time t₁ the meaning is more focused in the economic area, as one can see from neighbors like “azionario", “obbligazione" or “contante" (translated to “stock" as referred to the market, “bond" and “cash" resp.); while at time t₂ shifts to a more political sense, as shown by words such as “decreto" or “emendamento" (“decree" and “amendment" resp.).

The same it seems to happen for the target word “piovra", as one can see from Table 5, where at time t₁ CADE gathers senses from both considering it as the animal, for example from the word “tentacle", or as someone tied to crime in general, given words such as “profittatore" or “ruberia" (“profiteer" and “robbery" resp.); while at time t₂ captures a shift towards the Italian crime TV series “La piovra", as emerge from words such as “fiction", “camorra" or “retequattro", which is an Italian television channel.