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How, in general, are the meanings of ‘words’ (lexical units) most often represented in computational semantics today?
Describe the difference between the “sense” and “referent” of a word.
Show that words for men and women in English represent a sexist ideology.
What is a conceptual metaphor?
What are thematic roles?
Describe the differences between deep roles, thematic roles, and proto-roles, and the main problems and advantages of each.
What is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?
What is Ferdinand de Saussure's theory of relational meaning?
What is WordNet?
What are semantic selection restrictions and how (roughly) could they be assigned using WordNet?
What English sentence could represent the following set of first order logic expressions?
What is a 'Knowledge Graph'
Show that words for men and women in English represent a sexist ideology.
Give at least two examples of pairs of English words.
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Some of the word pairs that could be used to prove this are: slut / gigolo, master / mistress, lord / lady, and bachelor / spinster. In most of these word pairs the female word is negative and defines women in terms of their sexual, economic, and legal dependence on men, while the male word is positive and defined in terms of social and economic power. While a "lady" is defined in terms of polite behavior, not power. There are many other such examples.
Which of the following does not definitively demonstrate sexism in English?
There is no special female form of the word "doctor," like "doctoress."
There are the titles Mrs / Miss versus only Mr for men.
Traditionally, a person of unknown gender has been referred to as "man" or "he."
There are more pejorative terms for women than for men, according to research.
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Gender and the Dichotomic Representations in the Linguistic Imaginary (pages 74-77)