Are Fairy Tales Fair? Analyzing Gender Bias in Temporal Narrative Event Chains of Children’s Fairy Tales (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Social biases and stereotypes are embedded in our culture through their presence in our stories. |
| Approach: | They propose a computational pipeline that automatically extracts a story’s temporal narrative verb-based event chain for each of its characters as well as character attributes such as gender. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework extracts a story’s verb-based event chain for each of its characters as well as character attributes such as gender. |
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