@inproceedings{watson-etal-2025-analyzing,
    title = "Analyzing values about gendered language reform in {LLM}s' revisions",
    author = "Watson, Jules  and
      Wang, Xi  and
      Liu, Raymond  and
      Stevenson, Suzanne  and
      Beekhuizen, Barend",
    editor = "Christodoulopoulos, Christos  and
      Chakraborty, Tanmoy  and
      Rose, Carolyn  and
      Peng, Violet",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = nov,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Suzhou, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.emnlp-main.1277/",
    pages = "25157--25172",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-332-6",
    abstract = "Within the common LLM use case of text revision, we study LLMs' revision of gendered role nouns (e.g., outdoorsperson/woman/man) and their justifications of such revisions. We evaluate their alignment with feminist and trans-inclusive language reforms for English. Drawing on insight from sociolinguistics, we further assess if LLMs are sensitive to the same contextual effects in the application of such reforms as people are, finding broad evidence of such effects. We discuss implications for value alignment."
}