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Instances of bias: the gendered semantics of generic masculines in German revealed by instance vectors
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- Title:
- Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft
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Berlin [u.a.]: de Gruyter
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- Gesehen am 31.08.2017
- Open Access
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- Online-Ressource
- ISSN:
- 1613-3706
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2149772-2
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- Instances of bias: the gendered semantics of generic masculines in German revealed by instance vectors
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Berlin [u.a.]: de Gruyter, 2024
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- English
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- Abstract: While research using behavioural methods has repeatedly shown that generic masculines in German come with a male bias, computational methods only entered this area of research very recently. The present paper shows that some assumptions made by these recent computational studies – treating genericity as an inflectional function and computing a vector for generic usage strongly correlated with the grammatical masculine – are not without issue, and offers the use of semantic instance vectors as a possible solution to these issues. Beyond this methodological improvement, the present paper finds that generic masculines are indeed semantically more similar to specific masculines than to specific feminines – results that are in line with findings by the recent computational studies and the majority of previous behavioural studies.
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- Online-Ressource
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- Open Access
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- Keywords:
- distributional semantics ; gender bias ; generic masculine ; German
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- CC BY
- Accessibility:
- Free Access
- Title:
- Instances of bias: the gendered semantics of generic masculines in German revealed by instance vectors
- Publication:
-
Berlin [u.a.]: de Gruyter, 2024
- Language:
- English
- Information:
- Abstract: While research using behavioural methods has repeatedly shown that generic masculines in German come with a male bias, computational methods only entered this area of research very recently. The present paper shows that some assumptions made by these recent computational studies – treating genericity as an inflectional function and computing a vector for generic usage strongly correlated with the grammatical masculine – are not without issue, and offers the use of semantic instance vectors as a possible solution to these issues. Beyond this methodological improvement, the present paper finds that generic masculines are indeed semantically more similar to specific masculines than to specific feminines – results that are in line with findings by the recent computational studies and the majority of previous behavioural studies.
- Scope:
- Online-Ressource
- Note:
- Open Access
- Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet
- Keywords:
- distributional semantics ; gender bias ; generic masculine ; German
- Copyright:
- CC BY
- Accessibility:
- Free Access
