Question: Do they analyze specific derogatory words?

Evidence:
raw_evidence: In addition to the public's overall attitudes, it is important to consider variation and change in the specific words used to refer to LGBTQ people. Because these labels potentially convey many different social meanings and have different relationships with dehumanization in the media, a primary focus of this study involves comparing different LGBTQ labels, specifically gay and homosexual. The Gallup survey asked for opinions on legality of “homosexual relations" until 2008, but then changed the wording to “gay and lesbian relations". This was likely because many people who identify as gay and lesbian find the word homosexual to be outdated and derogatory. According to the LGBTQ media monitoring organization GLAAD, homosexual's offensiveness originates in the word's dehumanizing clinical history, which had falsely suggested that “people attracted to the same sex are somehow diseased or psychologically/emotionally disordered" . Beyond its outdated clinical associations, some argue that the word homosexual is more closely associated with sex and all of its negative connotations simply by virtue of containing the word sex, while terms such as gay and lesbian avoid such connotations BIBREF52. Most newspapers, including the New York Times, almost exclusively used the word homosexual in articles about gay and lesbian people until the late 1980s BIBREF53. The New York Times began using the word gay in non-quoted text in 1987. Many major newspapers began restricting the use of the word homosexual in 2006 BIBREF52. As of 2013, the New York Times has confined the use of homosexual to specific references to sexual activity or clinical orientation, in addition to direct quotes and paraphrases .
raw_evidence: The data for our case study spans over thirty years of articles from the New York Times, from January 1986 to December 2015, and was originally collected by BIBREF68 BIBREF68. The articles come from all sections of the newspaper, such as “World", “New York & Region", “Opinion", “Style", and “Sports". Our distributional semantic methods rely on all of the available data in order to obtain the most fine-grained understanding of the relationships between words possible. For the other techniques, we extract paragraphs containing any word from a predetermined list of LGTBQ terms (shown in Table TABREF19).
FLOAT SELECTED: Table 3: Nearest words to weighted average of all LGBTQ terms’ vectors in 1986, 2000, and 2015
In addition to the public's overall attitudes, it is important to consider variation and change in the specific words used to refer to LGBTQ people. Because these labels potentially convey many different social meanings and have different relationships with dehumanization in the media, a primary focus of this study involves comparing different LGBTQ labels, specifically gay and homosexual. The Gallup survey asked for opinions on legality of “homosexual relations" until 2008, but then changed the wording to “gay and lesbian relations". This was likely because many people who identify as gay and lesbian find the word homosexual to be outdated and derogatory. According to the LGBTQ media monitoring organization GLAAD, homosexual's offensiveness originates in the word's dehumanizing clinical history, which had falsely suggested that “people attracted to the same sex are somehow diseased or psychologically/emotionally disordered" . Beyond its outdated clinical associations, some argue that the word homosexual is more closely associated with sex and all of its negative connotations simply by virtue of containing the word sex, while terms such as gay and lesbian avoid such connotations BIBREF52. Most newspapers, including the New York Times, almost exclusively used the word homosexual in articles about gay and lesbian people until the late 1980s BIBREF53. The New York Times began using the word gay in non-quoted text in 1987. Many major newspapers began restricting the use of the word homosexual in 2006 BIBREF52. As of 2013, the New York Times has confined the use of homosexual to specific references to sexual activity or clinical orientation, in addition to direct quotes and paraphrases .

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