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
>>
>>
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