Stereotypical gender actions can be extracted from web text

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1741-1749

  Herdaǧdelen, Amaç ^a,b   Baroni, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b NEW ENGLAND COMPLEX SYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE ROC CURVE; COMMON SENSE; COMMONSENSE KNOWLEDGE; DAILY LIVES; DATA SETS; GENDER BIAS; GOLD STANDARDS; OPEN MIND; SPEARMAN CORRELATION; TEXT CORPORA;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); USER INTERFACES;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 80051670409     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21579     Document Type: Article

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