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Main Authors: Watson, Jules, Wang, Xi, Liu, Raymond, Stevenson, Suzanne, Beekhuizen, Barend
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21378
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author Watson, Jules
Wang, Xi
Liu, Raymond
Stevenson, Suzanne
Beekhuizen, Barend
author_facet Watson, Jules
Wang, Xi
Liu, Raymond
Stevenson, Suzanne
Beekhuizen, Barend
contents Within the common LLM use case of text revision, we study LLMs' revision of gendered role nouns (e.g., outdoorsperson/woman/man) and their justifications of such revisions. We evaluate their alignment with feminist and trans-inclusive language reforms for English. Drawing on insight from sociolinguistics, we further assess if LLMs are sensitive to the same contextual effects in the application of such reforms as people are, finding broad evidence of such effects. We discuss implications for value alignment.
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spellingShingle Analyzing values about gendered language reform in LLMs' revisions
Watson, Jules
Wang, Xi
Liu, Raymond
Stevenson, Suzanne
Beekhuizen, Barend
Computation and Language
Within the common LLM use case of text revision, we study LLMs' revision of gendered role nouns (e.g., outdoorsperson/woman/man) and their justifications of such revisions. We evaluate their alignment with feminist and trans-inclusive language reforms for English. Drawing on insight from sociolinguistics, we further assess if LLMs are sensitive to the same contextual effects in the application of such reforms as people are, finding broad evidence of such effects. We discuss implications for value alignment.
title Analyzing values about gendered language reform in LLMs' revisions
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21378