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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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, we find that there is a statistically significant relationship. We also find that there are statistically significant relationships between the grammatical genders of inanimate nouns and the verbs that take those nouns as direct objects, as indirect objects, and as subjects. We defer deeper investigation of these relationships for future work. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-06a8b1b634e740f8ad3dafc3ecff30c82022-12-22T02:00:27ZengThe MIT PressTransactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics2307-387X2021-01-01913915910.1162/tacl_a_00355On the Relationships Between the Grammatical Genders of Inanimate Nouns and Their Co-Occurring Adjectives and VerbsAdina Williams0Ryan Cotterell1Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin2Damián Blasi3Hanna Wallach4Facebook AI Research, United States. adinawilliams@fb.comETH Zürich, SwitzerlandJohns Hopkins University, United States. lawrencews@jhu.eduUniversität Zürich, Switzerland. damian.blasi@uzh.chMicrosoft Research, United States. wallach@microsoft.com 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, we find that there is a statistically significant relationship. We also find that there are statistically significant relationships between the grammatical genders of inanimate nouns and the verbs that take those nouns as direct objects, as indirect objects, and as subjects. We defer deeper investigation of these relationships for future work.https://direct.mit.edu/tacl/article/doi/10.1162/tacl_a_00355/98239/On-the-Relationships-Between-the-Grammatical |
| spellingShingle | Adina Williams Ryan Cotterell Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin Damián Blasi Hanna Wallach On the Relationships Between the Grammatical Genders of Inanimate Nouns and Their Co-Occurring Adjectives and Verbs Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics |
| title | On the Relationships Between the Grammatical Genders of Inanimate Nouns and Their Co-Occurring Adjectives and Verbs |
| title_full | On the Relationships Between the Grammatical Genders of Inanimate Nouns and Their Co-Occurring Adjectives and Verbs |
| title_fullStr | On the Relationships Between the Grammatical Genders of Inanimate Nouns and Their Co-Occurring Adjectives and Verbs |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the Relationships Between the Grammatical Genders of Inanimate Nouns and Their Co-Occurring Adjectives and Verbs |
| title_short | On the Relationships Between the Grammatical Genders of Inanimate Nouns and Their Co-Occurring Adjectives and Verbs |
| title_sort | on the relationships between the grammatical genders of inanimate nouns and their co occurring adjectives and verbs |
| url | https://direct.mit.edu/tacl/article/doi/10.1162/tacl_a_00355/98239/On-the-Relationships-Between-the-Grammatical |
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