Reflecting the Male Gaze: Quantifying Female Objectification in 19th and 20th Century Novels

1 code implementation • 25 Mar 2024 • Kexin Luo, Yue Mao, Bei Zhang, Sophie Hao

Inspired by the concept of the male gaze (Mulvey, 1975) in literature and media studies, this paper proposes a framework for analyzing gender bias in terms of female objectification: the extent to which a text portrays female individuals as objects of visual pleasure.

Verb Conjugation in Transformers Is Determined by Linear Encodings of Subject Number

1 code implementation • 23 Oct 2023 • Sophie Hao, Tal Linzen

Deep architectures such as Transformers are sometimes criticized for having uninterpretable "black-box" representations.

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