Institute of Knowledge Engineering
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C/ Francisco Tomás y Valiente, nº 11 Escuela Politécnica Superior (EPS), Edificio B, 5ª planta Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). 28049 Cantoblanco, Madrid
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Andrés Muñoz
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SMC participants
Researcher at the Computer Linguistics Laboratory of the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and director of Business & Language Analytics (BLA) of the Institute of Knowledge Engineering (IIC)
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A study of more than 630 billion words (mostly in English) used on 3 billion web pages concludes that the term 'people' is not gender-neutral: its meaning is biased towards the concept 'men'. The authors write in Science Advances that they see this as "a fundamental bias in the collective view of our species", relevant because the concept 'people' is "in almost all societal decisions and policies".