Controlling gender equality with shallow NLP techniques

Abstract

This paper introduces the “Gendercheck Editor”, a tool to check German texts for gender discriminatory formulations. It relays on shallow rule-based techniques as used in the Controlled Language Authoring Technology (CLAT). The paper outlines major sources of gender imbalances in German texts. It gives a background on the underlying CLAT technology and describes the marking and annotation strategy to automatically detect and visualize the questionable pieces of text. The paper provides a detailed evaluation of the editor.