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Patricia Chiril

3 accepted papers

2025

Seeds of Discourse: A Multilingual Corpus of Direct Quotations from African Media on Agricultural Biotechnologies

NAACL 2025findings

Direct quotations play a crucial role in journalism by substantiating claims and enhancing persuasive communication. This makes news articles a rich resource for opinion mining, providing valuable insights into the topics they cover. This paper presents the first multilingual corpora (English and Fr…

2022

Tales and Tropes: Gender Roles from Word Embeddings in a Century of Children’s Books

COLING 2022main

The manner in which gender is portrayed in materials used to teach children conveys messages about people’s roles in society. In this paper, we measure the gendered depiction of central domains of social life in 100 years of highly influential children’s books. We make two main contributions: (1) we…

2021

“Be nice to your wife! The restaurants are closed”: Can Gender Stereotype Detection Improve Sexism Classification?

EMNLP 2021finding

In this paper, we focus on the detection of sexist hate speech against women in tweets studying for the first time the impact of gender stereotype detection on sexism classification. We propose: (1) the first dataset annotated for gender stereotype detection, (2) a new method for data augmentation b…

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