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%0 Journal Article
%T The Causal Influence of Grammatical Gender on Distributional Semantics
%A Stańczak, Karolina
%A Du, Kevin
%A Williams, Adina
%A Augenstein, Isabelle
%A Cotterell, Ryan
%J Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
%D 2024
%V 12
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%F stanczak-etal-2024-causal
%X How much meaning influences gender assignment across languages is an active area of research in linguistics and cognitive science. We can view current approaches as aiming to determine where gender assignment falls on a spectrum, from being fully arbitrarily determined to being largely semantically determined. For the latter case, there is a formulation of the neo-Whorfian hypothesis, which claims that even inanimate noun gender influences how people conceive of and talk about objects (using the choice of adjective used to modify inanimate nouns as a proxy for meaning). We offer a novel, causal graphical model that jointly represents the interactions between a noun‘s grammatical gender, its meaning, and adjective choice. In accordance with past results, we find a significant relationship between the gender of nouns and the adjectives that modify them. However, when we control for the meaning of the noun, the relationship between grammatical gender and adjective choice is near zero and insignificant.
%R 10.1162/tacl_a_00723
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.tacl-1.90/
%U https://doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00723
%P 1672-1685

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[The Causal Influence of Grammatical Gender on Distributional Semantics](https://aclanthology.org/2024.tacl-1.90/) (Stańczak et al., TACL 2024)

• The Causal Influence of Grammatical Gender on Distributional Semantics (Stańczak et al., TACL 2024)

ACL

• Karolina Stańczak, Kevin Du, Adina Williams, Isabelle Augenstein, and Ryan Cotterell. 2024. The Causal Influence of Grammatical Gender on Distributional Semantics. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 12:1672–1685.