. // Stereotyped language related to gender, race and ethnicity in digital dictionaries and thesauri

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In the 21st century, stereotypical language is still widespread, accumulated in dictionaries, reinforcing stereotypes in easy online access. The PhD thesis aims therefore to:

1) analyse the representation of gender, race and ethnicity in digital (corpus-based) mono-/multilingual dictionaries and user interfaces (e.g. word thesaurus) to uncover fairness harms and discrimination against diverse demographic groups in lexical entries in terms of definitions, “typical” examples, collocations and synonyms;

2) raise users' and developers' Critical Language Awareness of stereotypical repr...