Paper ID: 2411.06194

WMT24 Test Suite: Gender Resolution in Speaker-Listener Dialogue Roles

Hillary Dawkins, Isar Nejadgholi, Chi-kiu Lo

We assess the difficulty of gender resolution in literary-style dialogue settings and the influence of gender stereotypes. Instances of the test suite contain spoken dialogue interleaved with external meta-context about the characters and the manner of speaking. We find that character and manner stereotypes outside of the dialogue significantly impact the gender agreement of referents within the dialogue.

Submitted: Nov 9, 2024