2020

Multi-Dimensional Gender Bias Classification

Dinan, Emily, Fan, Angela, Wu, Ledell et al.

Understand

Machine learning models are trained to find patterns in data.

  • NLP models can inadvertently learn socially undesirable patterns when training on gender biased text.
  • In this work, we propose a general framework that decomposes gender bias in text along several pragmatic and semantic dimensions: bias from the gender of the person being spoken about, bias from the gender of the person being spoken to, and bias from the gender of the speaker.
  • Using this fine-grained framework, we automatically annotate eight large scale datasets with gender information.

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