How does Grammatical Gender Affect Noun Representations in Gender-Marking Languages?
Table 4: Averages of similarities of pairs with same vs. different gender in Italian and German compared to English. The last row is the difference between the averages of the two sets. “Reduction” stands for gap reduction when removing gender signals from the context.
['[EMPTY]', 'Italian Original', 'Italian Debiased', 'Italian English', 'Italian Reduction', 'German Original', 'German Debiased', 'German English', 'German Reduction']
Table 4 shows the results for Italian and German, compared to English, both for the original and the debiased embeddings (for each language we show the results of the best performing debiased embeddings). [CONTINUE] As expected, in both languages, the difference between the average of the two sets with the debiased embeddings is much lower. In Italian, we get a reduction of 91.67% of the gap with respect to English. In German, we get a reduction of 100%.