README.md

annot

Analysis of manual annotation of gendered and gender biased language in archival metadata descriptions using the brat rapid annotation tool.

Annotation Taxonomy

Gendered and Gender Biased Language
├── Person Name
│   ├── Unknown
│   ├── Non-binary
│   ├── Feminine
│   └── Masculine
├── Linguistic
│   ├── Generalization
│   ├── Gendered Pronoun
│   └── Gendered Role
└── Contextual
    ├── Empowering
    ├── Occupation
    ├── Omission
    └── Stereotype

Table of Contents

• Directory Structure
• Contents
• Associated Resources
• License and Citation

Directory Structure

annot/
├── AnnotationInstructions.docx
├── data/  
│   ├── analysis_data/ (**hidden in GitHub repo**)
│   ├── iaa/
│   └── sample/
├── notebooks/
│   ├── aggregating_data/
│   ├── analyzing_data/
│   ├── cleaning_metadata/
│   └── preparing_data
├── .gitignore
└── README.md

Contents

• AnnotationInstructions.docx: instructions given to the annotators for labeling archival metadata descriptions in brat (includes the annotation taxonomy)
• data:
  • data/sample: directory with a sample of the annotated data as a CSV file
  • data/iaa: inter-annotator agreement scores per annotator and per label
  • Note: annotated data will be uploaded to this directory after further analysis
• notebooks: code written to prepare, aggregate, and analyze the annotated data, and to clean additional metadata fields associated with the annotated data (e.g., date of material, language of material)

Associated Resources

• Data source: Archives Online, Centre for Research Collections, University of Edinburgh
• Dataset preparation repository: annot-prep
• Publications:
  • Research methodology: Situated Data, Situated Systems: A Methodology to Engage with Power Relations in Natural Language Processing Research
  • Annotation taxonomy and data creation: Uncertainty and Inclusivity in Gender Bias Annotation: An Annotation Taxonomy and Annotated Datasets of British English Text

License and Citation

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

@inproceedings{havens-etal-2022-uncertainty,
    title = "Uncertainty and Inclusivity in Gender Bias Annotation: An Annotation Taxonomy and Annotated Datasets of {B}ritish {E}nglish Text",
    author = "Havens, Lucy  and
      Terras, Melissa and
      Bach, Benjamin  and
      Alex, Beatrice",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Seattle, Washington",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.gebnlp-1.4",
    pages = "30--57"
}