 Stereotypical gender actions can be extracted from web textAmaç Herdağdelen and Marco Baroni Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2011, vol. 62, issue 9, 1741-1749 Abstract: We extracted gender‐specific actions from text corpora and Twitter, and compared them with stereotypical expectations of people. We used Open Mind Common Sense (OMCS), a common sense knowledge repository, to focus on actions that are pertinent to common sense and daily life of humans. We use the gender information of Twitter users and web‐corpus‐based pronoun/name gender heuristics to compute the gender bias of the actions. With high recall, we obtained a Spearman correlation of 0.47 between corpus‐based predictions and a human gold standard, and an area under the ROC curve of 0.76 when predicting the polarity of the gold standard. We conclude that it is feasible to use natural text (and a Twitter‐derived corpus in particular) in order to augment common sense repositories with the stereotypical gender expectations of actions. We also present a dataset of 441 common sense actions with human judges' ratings on whether the action is typically/slightly masculine/feminine (or neutral), and another larger dataset of 21,442 actions automatically rated by the methods we investigate in this study. Date: 2011 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:jamist:v:62:y:2011:i:9:p:1741-1749 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article More articles in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology from Association for Information Science & Technology |
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