Our investigation was performed on both historical (for the time span of 1900 to 1904) and contemporary texts (for the time span of 2005 to 2009) in two languages, English and German. It is thus a continuation of prior work, in which we investigated historical English texts only <cite>(Hellrich and Hahn, 2016a)</cite> , and also influenced by the design decisions of Kim et al. (2014) and Kulkarni et al. (2015) which were the first to use word embeddings in diachronic studies.