What’s in a name? In some languages, grammatical gender
By Vivi Nastase, Marius Claudiu Popescu. 2009
26 citations recorded by the source corpus.
This paper presents an investigation of the relation between words and their gender in two gendered languages: German and Romanian. Gender is an issue that has long preoccupied linguists and baffled language learners. We verify the hypothesis that gender is dictated by the general sound patterns of a language, and that it goes beyond suffixes or word endings. Experimental results on German and Romanian nouns show strong support for this hypothesis, as gender prediction can be done with high accuracy based on the form of the words.
Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Gender Studies
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In Artificial Intelligence
- Adina Williams
- Ryan Cotterell
- Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin
- Hanna M. Wallach
- Octavia Maria Sulea
- Vlad Niculae
- Liviu Petrisor Dinu
- Damián E. Blasi
In Gender Studies
- Adina Williams
- Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin
- Ryan Cotterell
- Hanna M. Wallach
- Octavia Maria Sulea
- Vlad Niculae
- Liviu Petrisor Dinu
Citations in the corpus
- Quantifying the Semantic Core of Gender Systems (2019, background): “In many languages, a noun’s grammatical gender can be predicted from its spelling and pronunciation (Cucerzan and Yarowsky, 2003; Nastase and Popescu, 2009).”
- The Romanian Neuter Examined Through A Two-Gender N-Gram Classification System (2012, methodology): “approaches found in the works of (Cucerzan and Yarowsky, 2003) and (Nastase and Popescu, 2009) on automated classification of”