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Query: Robust Quantification of Gender Disparity in Pre-Modern English
  Literature using Natural Language Processing   Research has continued to shed light on the extent and significance of gender
disparity in social, cultural and economic spheres. More recently,
computational tools from the Natural Language Processing (NLP) literature have
been proposed for measuring such disparity using relatively extensive datasets
and empirically rigorous methodologies. In this paper, we contribute to this
line of research by studying gender disparity, at scale, in copyright-expired
literary texts published in the pre-modern period (defined in this work as the
period ranging from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century). One
of the challenges in using such tools is to ensure quality control, and by
extension, trustworthy statistical analysis. Another challenge is in using
materials and methods that are publicly available and have been established for
some time, both to ensure that they can be used and vetted in the future, and
also, to add confidence to the methodology itself. We present our solution to
addressing these challenges, and using multiple measures, demonstrate the
significant discrepancy between the prevalence of female characters and male
characters in pre-modern literature. The evidence suggests that the discrepancy
declines when the author is female. The discrepancy seems to be relatively
stable as we plot data over the decades in this century-long period. Finally,
we aim to carefully describe both the limitations and ethical caveats
associated with this study, and others like it.

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