Analyzing values about gendered language reform in LLMs' revisions

ACL ARR 2025 May Submission1269 Authors

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.

Paper Type: Long

Research Area: Special Theme (conference specific)

Research Area Keywords: Interdisciplinary Recontextualization of NLP

Contribution Types: Model analysis & interpretability

Languages Studied: English

Submission Number: 1269