A contrastive analysis of feminitives in Bulgarian, Polish and Russian

Sosnowski, Wojciech; Satoła-Staśkowiak, Joanna

doi:10.11649/cs.1922

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“…Polish is also a gender-marking language. The difference might be that in Polish it is still common to use masculine professions when referring to women, even if feminine equivalents exist(Sosnowski and Satoła-Staśkowiak, 2019).…”

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Assessing Gender Bias in Wikipedia: Inequalities in Article Titles

Faleńska¹,

Çetinoğlu²

2021

Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing

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Potential gender biases existing in Wikipedia's content can contribute to biased behaviors in a variety of downstream NLP systems. Yet, efforts in understanding what inequalities in portraying women and men occur in Wikipedia focused so far only on biographies, leaving open the question of how often such harmful patterns occur in other topics. In this paper, we investigate gender-related asymmetries in Wikipedia titles from all domains. We assess that for only half of gender-related articles, i.e., articles with words such as women or male in their titles, symmetrical counterparts describing the same concept for the other gender (and clearly stating it in their titles) exist. Among the remaining imbalanced cases, the vast majority of articles concern sports-and social-related issues. We provide insights on how such asymmetries can influence other Wikipedia components and propose steps towards reducing the frequency of observed patterns.Bias statement Inequalities in how men and women are represented in Wikipedia titles can be captured by NLP models and translate into biased behaviors creating representational harms (Blodgett et al., 2020). For example, if by default Wikipedia articles about national sports teams are about male teams, then a search engine might assume that a prototypical sportsperson is a man. Such a system when asked about famous volleyball players might exhibit recognition bias and return no women. Similarly, if Wikipedia provides special articles listing women photographers next to photographers, then an automatic knowledge extractor trained on such data might learn and propagate stereotypical generalizations that women within these occupations are an exception and should hold special qualities. Our work limits itself to binary gender values in extracting gender bias patterns from Wikipedia titles due to data scarcity. We acknow-ledge that not incorporating other values into our analysis indirectly causes recognition bias against non-binary people.

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Assessing Gender Bias in Wikipedia: Inequalities in Article Titles

Faleńska¹,

Çetinoğlu²

2021

Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing

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“…Not all valuable contrastive studies follow this model, however (cf. Sosnowski & Satoła-Staśkowiak, 2019). R. Roszko has further perfected this model by adding an explicit description of the notions constituting the semantic interlanguage (cf.…”

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Built-in Argument Positions in Bulgarian and Polish

Banasiak

2021

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Built-in Argument Positions in Bulgarian and PolishThe issue of built-in argument positions is not particularly popular in contemporary Slavic studies. However, some developments have occurred since the introduction of predicate-argument logic in semantic-syntactic studies. This paper focuses not only on theoretical developments but also on conclusions arising from the study of two Slavic languages: Bulgarian (an analytic language) and Polish (a synthetic language). Until now, the issue of incorporating an argument position in the form of a predicative expression has been viewed as a lexical issue. However, both lexical and morphological means can be used to express a type of proposition. The peculiarities of the distinction between word and sentence are also discussed. Wbudowane pozycje argumentowe w języku bułgarskim i polskimKwestia wbudowanych pozycji argumentowych nie jest szczególnie popularna we współczesnej slawistyce. Jednak od czasu wprowadzenia logiki predykatowo-argumentowej w badaniach semantyczno-składniowych nastąpiły pewne zmiany. W niniejszym artykule skupiono się nie tylko na opracowaniach teoretycznych, lecz również na wnioskach wynikających z badania dwóch języków słowiańskich: bułgarskiego (język analityczny) i polskiego (język syntetyczny). Dotychczas zjawisko wbudowania pozycji argumentowych w wyrażenie predykatywne było postrzegane jako zagadnienie leksykalne. Jednak zarówno środki leksykalne, jak i morfologiczne mogą służyć wyrażaniu pewnego typu propozycji. Omówiono również osobliwości rozróżnienia wyrazu od zdania.

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“…Yana Pavlishcheva 1 DOI: https://doi.org/10.30525/978-9934-588-84- [6][7][8] For the last decades the issue of striking the balance between female and male has become more comprehensive and widespread around the globe, covering the wide range of life spheres, from personal intimate to socio-political and economic aspects. Besides, the necessity to cope with a gender asymmetry has been recognised by increasing number of countries.…”

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The Role of Using Feminitives in Overcoming Gender Asymmetry

Pavlishcheva¹

2020

International Scientific Conference

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A contrastive analysis of feminitives in Bulgarian, Polish and Russian

Cited by 7 publications

References 2 publications

Assessing Gender Bias in Wikipedia: Inequalities in Article Titles

Assessing Gender Bias in Wikipedia: Inequalities in Article Titles

Built-in Argument Positions in Bulgarian and Polish

The Role of Using Feminitives in Overcoming Gender Asymmetry

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