How-to Guides for Specific Audiences: A Corpus and Initial Findings

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.12117v1
• Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 14:35:42 GMT
• Title: How-to Guides for Specific Audiences: A Corpus and Initial Findings
• Authors: Nicola Fanton, Agnieszka Falenska, Michael Roth
• Abstract summary: We investigate the extent to which how-to guides from one particular platform, wikiHow, differ in practice depending on the intended audience. The results of our studies show that guides from wikiHow, like other text genres, are subject to subtle biases.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Instructional texts for specific target groups should ideally take into account the prior knowledge and needs of the readers in order to guide them efficiently to their desired goals. However, targeting specific groups also carries the risk of reflecting disparate social norms and subtle stereotypes. In this paper, we investigate the extent to which how-to guides from one particular platform, wikiHow, differ in practice depending on the intended audience. We conduct two case studies in which we examine qualitative features of texts written for specific audiences. In a generalization study, we investigate which differences can also be systematically demonstrated using computational methods. The results of our studies show that guides from wikiHow, like other text genres, are subject to subtle biases. We aim to raise awareness of these inequalities as a first step to addressing them in future work.

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