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."
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Jonathan Morgan <jmorgan(a)wikimedia.org>
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 <Fabian.Floeck(a)gesis.org>
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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