On the Relationships Between the Grammatical Genders of Inanimate Nouns and Their Co-Occurring Adjectives and Verbs

AbstractWe use large-scale corpora in six different gendered languages, along with tools from NLP and information theory, to test whether there is a relationship between the grammatical genders of inanimate nouns and the adjectives used to describe those nouns. For all six languages,...

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Main Authors: Adina Williams, Ryan Cotterell, Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin, Damián Blasi, Hanna Wallach
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The MIT Press 2021-01-01
Series:Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Online Access:https://direct.mit.edu/tacl/article/doi/10.1162/tacl_a_00355/98239/On-the-Relationships-Between-the-Grammatical