Principled Frameworks for Evaluating Ethics in NLP Systems

Understand

We critique recent work on ethics in natural language processing.

• Those discussions have focused on data collection, experimental design, and interventions in modeling.
• But we argue that we ought to first understand the frameworks of ethics that are being used to evaluate the fairness and justice of algorithmic systems.
• Here, we begin that discussion by outlining deontological ethics, and envision a research agenda prioritized by it.