taz2024full: Analysing German Newspapers for Gender Bias and Discrimination across Decades

Stefanie Urchs, Veronika Thurner, Matthias Aßenmacher, Christian Heumann, Stephanie Thiemichen


Abstract
Open-access corpora are essential for advancing natural language processing (NLP) and computational social science (CSS). However,large-scale resources for German remain limited, restricting research on linguistic trends and societal issues such as gender bias. Wepresent taz2024full, the largest publicly available corpus of German newspaper articles to date, comprising over 1.8 million texts fromtaz, spanning 1980 to 2024.As a demonstration of the corpus’s utility for bias and discrimination research, we analyse gender representation across four decades ofreporting. We find a consistent overrepresentation of men, but also a gradual shift toward more balanced coverage in recent years. Usinga scalable, structured analysis pipeline, we provide a foundation for studying actor mentions, sentiment, and linguistic framing in Germanjournalistic texts.The corpus supports a wide range of applications, from diachronic language analysis to critical media studies, and is freely available tofoster inclusive and reproducible research in German-language NLP.
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2025.findings-acl.555
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
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July
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2025
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Vienna, Austria
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Wanxiang Che, Joyce Nabende, Ekaterina Shutova, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar
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Stefanie Urchs, Veronika Thurner, Matthias Aßenmacher, Christian Heumann, and Stephanie Thiemichen. 2025. taz2024full: Analysing German Newspapers for Gender Bias and Discrimination across Decades. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, pages 10661–10671, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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taz2024full: Analysing German Newspapers for Gender Bias and Discrimination across Decades (Urchs et al., Findings 2025)
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