How does Grammatical Gender Affect Noun Representations in Gender-Marking Languages?
Table 2: Averages of rankings of the words in same-gender pairs vs. different-gender pairs for Italian and German, along with their differences. Og stands for the original embeddings, Db for the debiased embeddings, and En for English. Each row presents the averages of pairs with the respective scores in SimLex-999 (0–4, 4–7, 7–10).
['[EMPTY]', 'Italian Same-gender', 'Italian Diff-Gender', 'Italian difference', 'German Same-gender', 'German Diff-Gender', 'German difference']
Table 2 shows the results for Italian and German, compared to English. As expected, the average ranking of samegender pairs is significantly lower than that of different-gender pairs, both for German and Italian, while the difference between the sets in English is much smaller. [CONTINUE] Table 2 shows the results for Italian and German, both for the original and the debiased embeddings. [CONTINUE] As we expect, the difference between the average ranking of the two sets drops significantly for both languages.