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title: "Matriarchy Classics: A Computational Approach to Swap Only Gendered Words in Classic Novels"
source: "arXiv AI/CL/LG（论文）"
source_tier: "t2"
url: "https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07134v1"
permalink: "https://feed.astralor.com/items/itm_c4aeded06015410e03fe67d1"
published: "2026-11-04T21:03:10.000Z"
score: 57
channel: "ai"
tags: ["LLM","推理效率","Matriarchy Classics","Computational Approach","Swap Only Gendered","Words","Classic Novels This"]
---

# Matriarchy Classics: A Computational Approach to Swap Only Gendered Words in Classic Novels

## At a glance

This paper proposes a trustworthy computational method to gender-swap public domain novels, with programmatic guarantees that only gendered words are inverted and all other words are left unchanged. This may seem like a…

## Key points

- This paper proposes a trustworthy computational method to gender-swap public domain novels, with programmatic guarantees that only gendered words are inverted and all other words are left unchanged.
- This may seem like a simple task, but both large language models and naive rule-based methods fail to complete it.
- The proposed method includes a custom whitespace-preserving tokenizer, gender-swap mappings across plural and possessive forms, pronoun handling, and a character renaming strategy.

## Full text

This paper proposes a trustworthy computational method to gender-swap public domain novels, with programmatic guarantees that only gendered words are inverted and all other words are left unchanged. This may seem like a simple task, but both large language models and naive rule-based methods fail to complete it. The proposed method includes a custom whitespace-preserving tokenizer, gender-swap mappings across plural and possessive forms, pronoun handling, and a character renaming strategy. It shortens the time required to gender-swap a novel from weeks of manual labor to minutes. The method is demonstrated on two public-domain novels. Pride and Prejudice is transported to matriarchal Regency England, where inheritance flows through daughters, mothers rule the household, and a frantic Mr. Bennet is determined to secure advantageous marriages for his sons. The Great Gatsby pivots to a matriarchal Jazz Age where newly-rich Ms. Gatsbee throws lavish parties in the hopes of reuniting with her lost love, David, who is now married to the violent Thelma Buchanan. Gender-swapped novels could serve as useful tools to investigate the gender biases of readers, authors, societies, and AI systems.

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