@inproceedings{baumler-rudinger-2022-recognition,
    title = "Recognition of They/Them as Singular Personal Pronouns in Coreference Resolution",
    author = "Baumler, Connor  and
      Rudinger, Rachel",
    editor = "Carpuat, Marine  and
      de Marneffe, Marie-Catherine  and
      Meza Ruiz, Ivan Vladimir",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies",
    month = jul,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Seattle, United States",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2022.naacl-main.250/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.250",
    pages = "3426--3432",
    abstract = "As using they/them as personal pronouns becomes increasingly common in English, it is important that coreference resolution systems work as well for individuals who use personal ``they'' as they do for those who use gendered personal pronouns. We introduce a new benchmark for coreference resolution systems which evaluates singular personal ``they'' recognition. Using these WinoNB schemas, we evaluate a number of publicly available coreference resolution systems and confirm their bias toward resolving ``they'' pronouns as plural."
}