Acknowledgements: The authors would like to thank Eleanor Chodroff, Clara Meister, and Zeerak Talat for their feedback on the manuscript.Recent research has demonstrated that large pre-trained language models reflect societal biases expressed in natural language. The present paper introduces a simple method for probing language models to conduct a multilingual study of gender bias towards politicians. We quantify the usage of adjectives and verbs generated by language models surrounding the names of politicians as a function of their gender. To this end, we curate a dataset of 250k politicians worldwide, including their names and gender. Our study is conducted in seven languages across six different language modeling architectures. The resu...
Gendered language is seemingly found everywhere in American politics. We test the impact that gender...
Relation between gender and language has been studied by many authors, however, there is still some ...
Biographies make up a significant portion of Wikipedia entries and are a source of information and i...
While the prevalence of large pre-trained language models has led to significant improvements in the...
Supplemental material file: online appendixHow does the language of male and female politicians diff...
How does the language of male and female politicians differ when they communicate directly with the ...
Seemingly, gender, language, and partisanship are intertwined concepts. We believe that the use of g...
Despite attempts to increase gender parity in politics, global efforts have struggled to ensure equa...
Relation between gender and language has been studied by many authors, however, there is still some ...
© The Author(s) 2020. Gender stereotypes influence subjective beliefs about the world, and this is r...
How does the language of male and female politicians differ when they communicate directly with the ...
Gendered language is seemingly found everywhere in American politics. We test the impact that gender...
Gendered language is seemingly found everywhere in American politics. We test the impact that gender...
Gendered language is seemingly found everywhere in American politics. We test the impact that gender...
Gendered language is seemingly found everywhere in American politics. We test the impact that gender...
Gendered language is seemingly found everywhere in American politics. We test the impact that gender...
Relation between gender and language has been studied by many authors, however, there is still some ...
Biographies make up a significant portion of Wikipedia entries and are a source of information and i...
While the prevalence of large pre-trained language models has led to significant improvements in the...
Supplemental material file: online appendixHow does the language of male and female politicians diff...
How does the language of male and female politicians differ when they communicate directly with the ...
Seemingly, gender, language, and partisanship are intertwined concepts. We believe that the use of g...
Despite attempts to increase gender parity in politics, global efforts have struggled to ensure equa...
Relation between gender and language has been studied by many authors, however, there is still some ...
© The Author(s) 2020. Gender stereotypes influence subjective beliefs about the world, and this is r...
How does the language of male and female politicians differ when they communicate directly with the ...
Gendered language is seemingly found everywhere in American politics. We test the impact that gender...
Gendered language is seemingly found everywhere in American politics. We test the impact that gender...
Gendered language is seemingly found everywhere in American politics. We test the impact that gender...
Gendered language is seemingly found everywhere in American politics. We test the impact that gender...
Gendered language is seemingly found everywhere in American politics. We test the impact that gender...
Relation between gender and language has been studied by many authors, however, there is still some ...
Biographies make up a significant portion of Wikipedia entries and are a source of information and i...