Gender Bias in Portuguese Wikipedia Biographies
Abstract
Women represents approximately 15% of the Wikipedia contributors, and this disparity has potential to introduce biases into this encyclopedia content. In this work, we propose an analysis of gender bias existence on Wikipedia content comparing the text of biographies of men and women considering two dimensions: meta-data and language. Our results show that there are differences in the way that women are described in biographies when compared to men.
Keywords:
Gender bias, Inferred Gender, Natural Language Processing, Meta-data
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Church, K. W. and Hanks, P. (1990). Word association norms, mutual information, and lexicography. Computational linguistics, 16.1:22–29.
Collier, B. and Bear, J. (2012). Conflict, criticism, or confidence: An empirical examination of the gender gap in wikipedia contributions. Proceedings of the ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW, 12:383–392.
Garcia, L. C. (2020). Cultura do estupro: Machismo e as raízes da violência de gênero no brasil. Diké: Revista Eletrônica de Direito, Filosofia e Política do Curso de Direito da UNIPAC Itabirito, page 49.
Graells-Garrido, E., Lalmas, M., and Menczer, F. (2015). First women, second sex: Gender bias in wikipedia. Proceedings of the 26th ACM conference on hypertext, pages 165–174.
Konieczny, P. and Klein, M. (2018). Gender gap through time and space: A journey through wikipedia biographies via the wikidata human gender indicator. New Media & Society, 20(12):4608–4633.
Lam, S. K., Uduwage, A.and Dong, Z., Sen, S.and Musicant, D. R., Terveen, L. G., and Riedl, J. (2011). Wp:clubhouse?: an exploration of wikipedia’s gender imbalance. ACM, pages 1–10.
Schmahl, K. G., Viering, T. J., Makrodimitris, S., Jahfari, A. N., Tax, D., and Loog, M. (2020). Is wikipedia succeeding in reducing gender bias? assessing changes in gender bias in wikipedia using word embeddings. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science, page 94–103.
Wagner, C., Garcia, D., Jadidi, M., and Strohmaier, M. (2015). It’s a man’s wikipedia? assessing gender inequality in an online encyclopedia. Ninth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media.
Wagner, C., Graells-Garrido, E., Garcia, D., and Menczer, F. (2016). Women through the glass ceiling: Gender asymmetries in wikipedia. EPJ Data Science, 5(1).
Published
2021-07-18
How to Cite
SALLES, Isadora A.; PAPPA, Gisele L..
Gender Bias in Portuguese Wikipedia Biographies. In: BRAZILIAN WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS AND MINING (BRASNAM), 10. , 2021, Evento Online.
Anais [...].
Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2021
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p. 211-216.
ISSN 2595-6094.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/brasnam.2021.16142.
