Reagle and Rhue used this technique to augment their data in 2010, but I'm not sure their study will give you exactly what you want:
"amendable to guesses based on honorifics (e.g., Count vs. Countess) and given names." http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/777/631 Make a great day, Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/ On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Jonathan Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > Fabian, > > I talked with Amanda Menking about this once, about a year ago. But no, I > don't believe there has been any academic work on the issue (another > consequence of our over-focus on enwiki). > > Mako Hill and Aaron Shaw presented a paper on redirects at WikiSym last > year, and their enwiki corpus & methodology > <http://communitydata.cc/wiki-redirects/> could help you or others extend > that line of research into gendered languages: > http://mako.cc/academic/hill_shaw-consider_the_redirect.pdf > > Hope that helps! > > - Jonathan > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Flöck, Fabian <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Does anyone know about a study that looks at how often for example >> articles about a profession use the male instead of the female form as the >> name (female form doesn't exist or is just a redirect)? >> Could also be about any other article titles that can take male/female >> forms. >> >> It would probably not be a so much of an issue for English, but rather >> Spanish, German, Russian etc. Concrete example: >> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor exists in German, but >> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professorin is just a redirect. >> >> Cheers, >> Fabian >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > > > > -- > Jonathan T. Morgan > Community Research Lead > Wikimedia Foundation > User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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