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Analyzing Gender Bias within Narrative Tropes - ACL Anthology
Analyzing Gender Bias within Narrative Tropes
Dhruvil Gala, Mohammad Omar Khursheed, Hannah Lerner, Brendan O’Connor, Mohit Iyyer
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Abstract
Popular media reflects and reinforces societal biases through the use of tropes, which are narrative elements, such as archetypal characters and plot arcs, that occur frequently across media. In this paper, we specifically investigate gender bias within a large collection of tropes. To enable our study, we crawl tvtropes.org, an online user-created repository that contains 30K tropes associated with 1.9M examples of their occurrences across film, television, and literature. We automatically score the “genderedness” of each trope in our TVTROPES dataset, which enables an analysis of (1) highly-gendered topics within tropes, (2) the relationship between gender bias and popular reception, and (3) how the gender of a work’s creator correlates with the types of tropes that they use.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.nlpcss-1.23
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Online
- Editors:
- David Bamman, Dirk Hovy, David Jurgens, Brendan O'Connor, Svitlana Volkova
- Venue:
- NLP+CSS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 212–217
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcss-1.23/
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2020.nlpcss-1.23
- Bibkey:
- Cite (ACL):
- Dhruvil Gala, Mohammad Omar Khursheed, Hannah Lerner, Brendan O’Connor, and Mohit Iyyer. 2020. Analyzing Gender Bias within Narrative Tropes. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science, pages 212–217, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Analyzing Gender Bias within Narrative Tropes (Gala et al., NLP+CSS 2020)
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- PDF:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcss-1.23.pdf
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- https://slideslive.com/38940608
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[Analyzing Gender Bias within Narrative Tropes](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcss-1.23/) (Gala et al., NLP+CSS 2020)
- Analyzing Gender Bias within Narrative Tropes (Gala et al., NLP+CSS 2020)
ACL
- Dhruvil Gala, Mohammad Omar Khursheed, Hannah Lerner, Brendan O’Connor, and Mohit Iyyer. 2020. Analyzing Gender Bias within Narrative Tropes. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science, pages 212–217, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.