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> My bigger concern was what doesn't get caught because it appears after a noun rather than a pronoun, Yeah, some clever gender/name lookup would be a good ide
by wyldfire 10y ago
> My bigger concern was what doesn't get caught because it appears after a noun rather than a pronoun,
Yeah, some clever gender/name lookup would be a good idea, many subjects in plots are the characters' names. Maybe even more subject names than pronouns.
That said, it seems unlikely that there's a pronoun-substitution gender bias, so it would probably just yield more samples of the same trend.
- dahart 10y agoWhat doesn't get caught is a super interesting question. (As is object genders too.) How often he occurs vs she is important. How long he is talked about vs how long she is talked about; I'm not certain about screenplay conventions, but usually the first sentence would name the character and some number of subsequent sentences might use she rather than repeat her name. So yeah, there's plenty more room for making this analysis scientific, and no reason to assume it's unbiased.