2 papers
cs.CL2026
Crossing the Gender Binary: Modelling Gendered Reference in Science Fiction and General Fiction
Yuxuan Liu, Haim Dubossarsky, Ruth Ahnert
Science fiction is widely credited with unsettling gender. This article asks whether that holds at the linguistic level, in how readily gendered reference gives way to its counterp…
cs.CL2025
Estranged Predictions: Measuring Semantic Category Disruption with Masked Language Modelling
Yuxuan Liu, Haim Dubossarsky, Ruth Ahnert
This paper examines how science fiction destabilises ontological categories by measuring conceptual permeability across the terms human, animal, and machine using masked language m…