Men and women in discourse: An experiment on gender identification in discourse
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Men and women in discourse: An experiment on gender identification in discourseAutoria
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Silvestre López, Antonio JoséTutor/Supervisor; Universitat.Departament
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis AnglesosData de publicació
2015-06Editor
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Diverse studies on how men and women make use of discourse (Lakoff, 1975; Coates, 1993)
have obtained certain features that appear to characterise male and female texts. Nevertheless, it
seems difficult to find a ... [+]
Diverse studies on how men and women make use of discourse (Lakoff, 1975; Coates, 1993)
have obtained certain features that appear to characterise male and female texts. Nevertheless, it
seems difficult to find a system which allows an accurate prediction of this pattern of use. There
has been some attempts to create systems with those characteristics by means of computer
programs such as the Gender Guesser, which was based on Koppel et al. (2002) and Argamon et
al. (2003). Despite this, the degree of success of these computer systems is yet to be established.
An aim of this study is to check if the Gender Guesser is a better predictor than English Studies
Degree students with an average level of English equivalent to C1, as well as some knowledge
about gender and discourse obtained in the degree, making them comparable competitors of the
Gender Guesser in order to measure the success of their predictions. A comparison of the guesses
on the gender of the author between a computer system named Gender Guesser and students of
the last year of English Studies Degree was carried out. In addition to this, qualitative
information regarding their perceptions was acquired. Results indicate that the computer system, which bases its analysis on the repetition of features from previous studies such as personal
pronouns and specifiers, fails to guess most of the texts. On the contrary, the students, who base
their answers on different features, are right in most of their judgements, obtaining higher
accuracy rates than the Gender Guesser. Therefore, the difference between male and female
discourse seems to lay elsewhere more personal and intricate than in the repetition of certain
features. Further study on these new features may provide a better method to approach the
prediction of male and female discourse production. [-]
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Treball Final de Grau en Estudis Anglesos. Codi: EA0938. Curs acadèmic 2014-2015
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