We introduce a new benchmark, WinoBias, for coreference resolution focused on gender bias. Our corpus contains Winograd-schema style sentences with entities corresponding to people referred by their occupation (e.g. the nurse, the doctor, the carpenter). We demonstrate that a rule-based, a feature-rich, and a neural coreference system all link gendered pronouns to pro-stereotypical entities with higher accuracy than anti-stereotypical entities, by an average difference of 21.1 in F1 score. Finally, we demonstrate a data-augmentation approach that, in combination with existing word-embedding debiasing techniques, removes the bias demonstrated by these systems in WinoBias without significantly affecting their performance on existing coreference benchmark datasets. Our dataset and code are available at http://winobias.org.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1804.06876,
title = {Gender Bias in Coreference Resolution: Evaluation and Debiasing Methods},
author = {Jieyu Zhao and Tianlu Wang and Mark Yatskar and Vicente Ordonez and Kai-Wei Chang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.06876},
year = {2018}
}