Beyond Obscuration and Visibility: Thoughts on the Different Strategies of Gender-Fair Language in Italian

Martina Rosola; Simona Frenda; Alessandra Teresa Cignarella; Matteo Pellegrini; Andrea Marra; Mara Floris

Beyond Obscuration and Visibility: Thoughts on the Different Strategies of Gender-Fair Language in Italian

Martina Rosola^*
, Simona Frenda
, Alessandra Teresa Cignarella
, Matteo Pellegrini
, Andrea Marra
, Mara Floris

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Abstract

This study focuses on the growing importance of gender-fair language and explores innovative strategies proposed also in other languages to avoid gender-specific endings. We present a set of guidelines for the annotation and reformulation of gender-(un)fair texts and their application to a corpus of 1, 024 portions of university administrative documents in Italian. Overall, the guidelines presented in this study prove to be valuable both practically and theoretically. They help identify and address non-inclusive expressions while highlighting the complexities of obscuration and visibility in gender-fair language reformulation. In addition, the statistical analysis of the created corpus shows how administrative texts tend to contain gender-unfair language, especially the masculine overextended expressions, showing the need to adopt specific and complete guidelines that lead (and support the staff training) to the use of a more gender-fair language.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Ninth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2023)
Publisher	CEUR-WS
Pages	369–378
Number of pages	10
Volume	3596
ISBN (Print)	9791255000846
Publication status	Published - 30 Nov 2023
Event	9th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics 2023 - Venice, Italy Duration: 30 Nov 2023 → 2 Dec 2023 https://clic2023.ilc.cnr.it/

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Name	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publisher	CEUR-WS
ISSN (Print)	1613-0073

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Conference	9th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics 2023
Abbreviated title	CLiC-it 2023
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Venice
Period	30/11/23 → 2/12/23
Internet address	https://clic2023.ilc.cnr.it/

Keywords

Annotation Schema
Gender-fair language
Italian

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Rosola, M., Frenda, S., Cignarella, A. T., Pellegrini, M., Marra, A., & Floris, M. (2023). Beyond Obscuration and Visibility: Thoughts on the Different Strategies of Gender-Fair Language in Italian. In Proceedings of the Ninth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2023) (Vol. 3596, pp. 369–378). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings). CEUR-WS. https://aclanthology.org/2023.clicit-1.44/

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Rosola, M, Frenda, S, Cignarella, AT, Pellegrini, M, Marra, A & Floris, M 2023, Beyond Obscuration and Visibility: Thoughts on the Different Strategies of Gender-Fair Language in Italian. in Proceedings of the Ninth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2023). vol. 3596, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR-WS, pp. 369–378, 9th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics 2023, Venice, Italy, 30/11/23. <https://aclanthology.org/2023.clicit-1.44/>

Beyond Obscuration and Visibility: Thoughts on the Different Strategies of Gender-Fair Language in Italian. / Rosola, Martina; Frenda, Simona; Cignarella, Alessandra Teresa et al.
Proceedings of the Ninth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2023). Vol. 3596 CEUR-WS, 2023. p. 369–378 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).

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