How to Write a Bias Statement: Recommendations for Submissions to the Workshop on Gender Bias in NLP

Understand

At the Workshop on Gender Bias in NLP (GeBNLP), we'd like to encourage authors to give explicit consideration to the wider aspects of bias and its social implications.

• For the 2020 edition of the workshop, we therefore requested that all authors include an explicit bias statement in their work to clarify how their work relates to the social context in which NLP systems are used.
• The programme committee of the workshops included a number of reviewers with a background in the humanities and social sciences, in addition to NLP experts doing the bulk of the reviewing.
• Each paper was assigned one of those reviewers, and they were asked to pay specific attention to the provided bias statements in their reviews.