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Understanding how people represent categories is a core problem in cognitive science. Decades of research have yielded a variety of formal theories of categories, but validating them with naturalistic stimuli is difficult. The challenge is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Joshua C. Peterson , Jordan W. Suchow , Krisha Aghi , Alexander Y. Ku , Thomas L. Griffiths

Text is a vehicle to convey information that reflects the writer's linguistic style and communicative patterns. By studying these attributes, we can discover latent insights about the author and their underlying message. This article uses…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Deborah Gerhardt , Miriam Marcowitz-Bitton , W. Michael Schuster , Avshalom Elmalech , Omri Suissa , Moshe Mash

In this paper we present some experiments to automatically classify online handwritten text based on capital letters. Although handwritten text is not as discriminative as face or voice, we still found some chance for gender classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Marcos Faundez-Zanuy , Enric Sesa-Nogueras

Information availability affects people's behavior and perception of the world. Notably, people rely on search engines to satisfy their need for information. Search engines deliver results relevant to user requests usually without being or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Aldo Lipani , Florina Piroi , Emine Yilmaz

In recent years, various methods have been proposed to evaluate gender bias in large language models (LLMs). A key challenge lies in the transferability of bias measurement methods initially developed for the English language when applied…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Kristin Gnadt , David Thulke , Simone Kopeinik , Ralf Schlüter

In this paper, we pose the question: do people talk about women and men in different ways? We introduce two datasets and a novel integration of approaches for automatically inferring gender associations from language, discovering coherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Serina Chang , Kathleen McKeown

Narrative reviews of peer review research have concluded that there is negligible evidence of gender bias in the awarding of grants based on peer review. Here, we report the findings of a meta-analysis of 21 studies providing, to the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Lutz Bornmann , Ruediger Mutz , Hans-Dieter Daniel

Predicting gender by the first name is not a simple task. In many applications, especially in the natural language processing (NLP) field, this task may be necessary, mainly when considering foreign names. In this paper, we examined and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Rosana C. B. Rego , Verônica M. L. Silva , Victor M. Fernandes

How to handle gender with machine learning is a controversial topic. A growing critical body of research brought attention to the numerous issues transgender communities face with the adoption of current automatic gender recognition (AGR)…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Toby Chong , Nolwenn Maudet , Katsuki Harima , Takeo Igarashi

In this modern technological era, categorization and ranking of research journals is gaining popularity among researchers and scientists. It plays a significant role for publication of their research findings in a quality journal. Although,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Rabia Shabbir Ranjha , Arshad Ali , Shahid Yousaf

State-of-the-art deep networks implicitly encode gender information while being trained for face recognition. Gender is often viewed as an important attribute with respect to identifying faces. However, the implicit encoding of gender…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Prithviraj Dhar , Joshua Gleason , Hossein Souri , Carlos D. Castillo , Rama Chellappa

Gender bias in artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a pressing concern with profound implications for individuals' lives. This paper presents a comprehensive survey that explores gender bias in Transformer models from a linguistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Praneeth Nemani , Yericherla Deepak Joel , Palla Vijay , Farhana Ferdousi Liza

Name-based gender prediction has traditionally categorized individuals as either female or male based on their names, using a binary classification system. That binary approach can be problematic in the cases of gender-neutral names that do…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zhiwen You , HaeJin Lee , Shubhanshu Mishra , Sullam Jeoung , Apratim Mishra , Jinseok Kim , Jana Diesner

Perceptions of gender are a significant aspect of human-human interaction, and gender has wide-reaching social implications for robots deployed in contexts where they are expected to interact with humans. This work explored two flexible…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Nathaniel S. Dennler , Mina Kian , Stefanos Nikolaidis , Maja Matarić

Recent works have found evidence of gender bias in models of machine translation and coreference resolution using mostly synthetic diagnostic datasets. While these quantify bias in a controlled experiment, they often do so on a small scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Shahar Levy , Koren Lazar , Gabriel Stanovsky

Although the gender gap in academia has narrowed, females are underrepresented within some fields in the USA. Prior research suggests that the imbalances between science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields may be partly due to…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Mike Thelwall , Carol Bailey , Catherine Tobin , Noel-Ann Bradshaw

Social media contains useful information about people and the society that could help advance research in many different areas (e.g. by applying opinion mining, emotion/sentiment analysis, and statistical analysis) such as business and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Zahra Movahedi Nia , Ali Ahmadi , Bruce Mellado , Jianhong Wu , James Orbinski , Ali Agary , Jude Dzevela Kong

Currently, there is a surge of interest in fair Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) research which aims to mitigate discriminatory bias in AI algorithms, e.g. along lines of gender, age, and race. While most research in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Clarice Wang , Kathryn Wang , Andrew Bian , Rashidul Islam , Kamrun Naher Keya , James Foulds , Shimei Pan

Most gender classifications methods from NIR images have used iris information. Recent work has explored the use of the whole periocular iris region which has surprisingly achieve better results. This suggests the most relevant information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Ignacio Viedma , Juan Tapia , Andres Iturriaga , Christoph Busch

Gender imbalances in work environments have been a long-standing concern. Identifying the existence of such imbalances is key to designing policies to help overcome them. In this work, we study gender trends in employment across various…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Karri Haranko , Emilio Zagheni , Kiran Garimella , Ingmar Weber