@inproceedings{suhr-roth-2024-diachronic,
title = "A Diachronic Analysis of Gender-Neutral Language on wiki{H}ow",
author = "Suhr, Katharina and
Roth, Michael",
editor = {Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja and
B, Bharathi and
Buitelaar, Paul and
Durairaj, Thenmozhi and
Kov{\'a}cs, Gy{\"o}rgy and
Garc{\'\i}a Cumbreras, Miguel {\'A}ngel},
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion",
month = mar,
year = "2024",
address = "St. Julian's, Malta",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.ltedi-1.10",
pages = "118--123",
abstract = "As a large how-to website, wikiHow{'}s mission is to empower every person on the planet to learn how to do anything. An important part of including everyone also linguistically is the use of gender-neutral language. In this short paper, we study in how far articles from wikiHow fulfill this criterion based on manual annotation and automatic classification. In particular, we employ a classifier to analyze how the use of gender-neutral language has developed over time. Our results show that although about 75{\%} of all articles on wikiHow were written in a gender-neutral way from the outset, revisions have a higher tendency to add gender-specific language than to change it to inclusive wording.",
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%T A Diachronic Analysis of Gender-Neutral Language on wikiHow
%A Suhr, Katharina
%A Roth, Michael
%Y Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja
%Y B, Bharathi
%Y Buitelaar, Paul
%Y Durairaj, Thenmozhi
%Y Kovács, György
%Y García Cumbreras, Miguel Ángel
%S Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion
%D 2024
%8 March
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C St. Julian’s, Malta
%F suhr-roth-2024-diachronic
%X As a large how-to website, wikiHow’s mission is to empower every person on the planet to learn how to do anything. An important part of including everyone also linguistically is the use of gender-neutral language. In this short paper, we study in how far articles from wikiHow fulfill this criterion based on manual annotation and automatic classification. In particular, we employ a classifier to analyze how the use of gender-neutral language has developed over time. Our results show that although about 75% of all articles on wikiHow were written in a gender-neutral way from the outset, revisions have a higher tendency to add gender-specific language than to change it to inclusive wording.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.ltedi-1.10
%P 118-123
Markdown (Informal)
[A Diachronic Analysis of Gender-Neutral Language on wikiHow](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ltedi-1.10) (Suhr & Roth, LTEDI-WS 2024)
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