@inproceedings{aggarwal-etal-2020-exploration,
    title = "Exploration of Gender Differences in {COVID-19} Discourse on {R}eddit",
    author = "Aggarwal, Jai  and
      Rabinovich, Ella  and
      Stevenson, Suzanne",
    editor = "Verspoor, Karin  and
      Cohen, Kevin Bretonnel  and
      Dredze, Mark  and
      Ferrara, Emilio  and
      May, Jonathan  and
      Munro, Robert  and
      Paris, Cecile  and
      Wallace, Byron",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on {NLP} for {COVID-19} at {ACL} 2020",
    month = jul,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2020.nlpcovid19-acl.13/",
    abstract = "Decades of research on differences in the language of men and women have established postulates about the nature of lexical, topical, and emotional preferences between the two genders, along with their sociological underpinnings. Using a novel dataset of male and female linguistic productions collected from the Reddit discussion platform, we further confirm existing assumptions about gender-linked affective distinctions, and demonstrate that these distinctions are amplified in social media postings involving emotionally-charged discourse related to COVID-19. Our analysis also confirms considerable differences in topical preferences between male and female authors in pandemic-related discussions."
}