BibTeX
@inproceedings{suhr-roth-2024-diachronic,
title = "A Diachronic Analysis of Gender-Neutral Language on wiki{H}ow",
author = "Suhr, Katharina and
Roth, Michael",
editor = {Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja and
B, Bharathi and
Buitelaar, Paul and
Durairaj, Thenmozhi and
Kov{á}cs, Gy{ö}rgy and
Garc{í}a Cumbreras, Miguel {Á}ngel},
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion",
month = mar,
year = "2024",
address = "St. Julian's, Malta",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.ltedi-1.10",
pages = "118-123",
abstract = "As a large how-to website, wikiHow{'}s mission is to empower every person on the planet to learn how to do anything. An important part of including everyone also linguistically is the use of gender-neutral language. In this short paper, we study in how far articles from wikiHow fulfill this criterion based on manual annotation and automatic classification. In particular, we employ a classifier to analyze how the use of gender-neutral language has developed over time. Our results show that although about 75{