@inproceedings{suhr-roth-2024-diachronic,
    title = "A Diachronic Analysis of Gender-Neutral Language on wiki{H}ow",
    author = "Suhr, Katharina  and
      Roth, Michael",
    editor = {Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja  and
      B, Bharathi  and
      Buitelaar, Paul  and
      Durairaj, Thenmozhi  and
      Kov{\'a}cs, Gy{\"o}rgy  and
      Garc{\'i}a Cumbreras, Miguel {\'A}ngel},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion",
    month = mar,
    year = "2024",
    address = "St. Julian's, Malta",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2024.ltedi-1.10/",
    pages = "118--123",
    abstract = "As a large how-to website, wikiHow`s mission is to empower every person on the planet to learn how to do anything. An important part of including everyone also linguistically is the use of gender-neutral language. In this short paper, we study in how far articles from wikiHow fulfill this criterion based on manual annotation and automatic classification. In particular, we employ a classifier to analyze how the use of gender-neutral language has developed over time. Our results show that although about 75{\%} of all articles on wikiHow were written in a gender-neutral way from the outset, revisions have a higher tendency to add gender-specific language than to change it to inclusive wording."
}