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Principled Frameworks for Evaluating Ethics in NLP Systems

Computation and Language 2019-06-18 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

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.

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@article{arxiv.1906.06425,
  title  = {Principled Frameworks for Evaluating Ethics in NLP Systems},
  author = {Shrimai Prabhumoye and Elijah Mayfield and Alan W Black},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.06425},
  year   = {2019}
}
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