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How Conservative are Language Models? Adapting to the Introduction of Gender-Neutral Pronouns. (arXiv:2204.10281v2 [cs.CL] UPDATED)
May 4, 2022, 1:11 a.m. | Stephanie Brandl, Ruixiang Cui, Anders Søgaard
cs.CL updates on arXiv.org arxiv.org
Gender-neutral pronouns have recently been introduced in many languages to a)
include non-binary people and b) as a generic singular. Recent results from
psycholinguistics suggest that gender-neutral pronouns (in Swedish) are not
associated with human processing difficulties. This, we show, is in sharp
contrast with automated processing. We show that gender-neutral pronouns in
Danish, English, and Swedish are associated with higher perplexity, more
dispersed attention patterns, and worse downstream performance. We argue that
such conservativity in language models may limit …
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