Deriving Meaning of Trending Words for Expanding Thesaurus

Abstract

Nowadays there is a huge increase in the types of new or trending words being generated and used across social media. Though these words are used frequently, neither these trending words i.e. buzzwords are present in any dictionary, nor are they declared as official word-forms. However, these are the terms that drive a language to a different level. Thus, to take a look at the linguistic changes occurring across the world, this study is carried out of the approaches that can be used to find such new words that are highly in use, but have not yet attained an official status. Finding such words can be helpful in tracking the language change. Therefore, an approach for finding such words and imparting semantic relationship to find out their possible meanings or opposites is proposed in this paper.