Papers by Anjali Adukia
Tales and Tropes: Gender Roles from Word Embeddings in a Century of Children’s Books (2022.coling-1)
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Anjali Adukia, Patricia Chiril, Callista Christ, Anjali Das, Alex Eble, Emileigh Harrison, Hakizumwami Birali Runesha
| Challenge: | In 100 years of influential children's books, gender is portrayed in a way that reproduces traditional gender norms in society. |
| Approach: | They use word embeddings to train a model to detect individual sentences containing stereotypes to measure how gender is portrayed in children's books. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model trains a model to detect individual sentences containing stereotypes to gain a deeper understanding of the messages conveyed to children by the books they read. |