@prefix bfo: <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/> .
@prefix dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix sco: <http://ontextract.org/sco#> .
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .

sco:SemanticChangeEvent a owl:Class ;
    rdfs:label "Semantic Change Event" ;
    dcterms:bibliographicCitation "Tahmasebi et al. (2021). Survey of Computational Approaches to Lexical Semantic Change Detection. Language Science Press." ;
    rdfs:comment "A process by which the meaning of a term changes over time. Top-level class for all semantic change phenomena." ;
    rdfs:subClassOf bfo:BFO_0000015 ;
    skos:definition "A temporal process wherein a linguistic term undergoes modification in its semantic content, usage patterns, or conceptual associations within a discourse community." .

