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Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in sensitive contexts where fairness and inclusivity are critical. Pronoun usage, especially concerning gender-neutral and neopronouns, remains a key challenge for responsible AI. Prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Xushuo Tang , Yi Ding , Zhengyi Yang , Yin Chen , Yongrui Gu , Wenke Yang , Mingchen Ju , Xin Cao , Yongfei Liu , Wenjie Zhang

Sentiment classification is an important process in understanding people's perception towards a product, service, or topic. Many natural language processing models have been proposed to solve the sentiment classification problem. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Manish Munikar , Sushil Shakya , Aakash Shrestha

The popularity of social media has created problems such as hate speech and sexism. The identification and classification of sexism in social media are very relevant tasks, as they would allow building a healthier social environment.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Angel Felipe Magnossão de Paula , Roberto Fray da Silva , Ipek Baris Schlicht

Diagnostic datasets that can detect biased models are an important prerequisite for bias reduction within natural language processing. However, undesired patterns in the collected data can make such tests incorrect. For example, if the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Vid Kocijan , Oana-Maria Camburu , Thomas Lukasiewicz

The BERT model has arisen as a popular state-of-the-art machine learning model in the recent years that is able to cope with multiple NLP tasks such as supervised text classification without human supervision. Its flexibility to cope with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Santiago González-Carvajal , Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán

We apply BERT to coreference resolution, achieving strong improvements on the OntoNotes (+3.9 F1) and GAP (+11.5 F1) benchmarks. A qualitative analysis of model predictions indicates that, compared to ELMo and BERT-base, BERT-large is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Mandar Joshi , Omer Levy , Daniel S. Weld , Luke Zettlemoyer

The successful application of neural methods to machine translation has realized huge quality advances for the community. With these improvements, many have noted outstanding challenges, including the modeling and treatment of gendered…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Hila Gonen , Kellie Webster

BERT and other large-scale language models (LMs) contain gender and racial bias. They also exhibit other dimensions of social bias, most of which have not been studied in depth, and some of which vary depending on the language. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Jaimeen Ahn , Alice Oh

The BERT family of neural language models have become highly popular due to their ability to provide sequences of text with rich context-sensitive token encodings which are able to generalise well to many NLP tasks. We introduce gaBERT, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-29 James Barry , Joachim Wagner , Lauren Cassidy , Alan Cowap , Teresa Lynn , Abigail Walsh , Mícheál J. Ó Meachair , Jennifer Foster

We present the first challenge set and evaluation protocol for the analysis of gender bias in machine translation (MT). Our approach uses two recent coreference resolution datasets composed of English sentences which cast participants into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Gabriel Stanovsky , Noah A. Smith , Luke Zettlemoyer

The growing interest in argument mining and computational argumentation brings with it a plethora of Natural Language Understanding (NLU) tasks and corresponding datasets. However, as with many other NLU tasks, the dominant language is…

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Domain adaptation or transfer learning using pre-trained language models such as BERT has proven to be an effective approach for many natural language processing tasks. In this work, we propose to formulate word sense disambiguation as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Boon Peng Yap , Andrew Koh , Eng Siong Chng

Gender/ing guides how we view ourselves, the world around us, and each other--including non-humans. Critical voices have raised the alarm about stereotyped gendering in the design of socially embodied artificial agents like voice…

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The ability of semantic reasoning over the sentence pair is essential for many natural language understanding tasks, e.g., natural language inference and machine reading comprehension. A recent significant improvement in these tasks comes…

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Natural language understanding (NLU) has two core tasks: intent classification and slot filling. The success of pre-training language models resulted in a significant breakthrough in the two tasks. One of the promising solutions called BERT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Yu Guo , Zhilong Xie , Xingyan Chen , Huangen Chen , Leilei Wang , Huaming Du , Shaopeng Wei , Yu Zhao , Qing Li , Gang Wu

Transformer models have shown impressive performance on a variety of NLP tasks. Off-the-shelf, pre-trained models can be fine-tuned for specific NLP classification tasks, reducing the need for large amounts of additional training data.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Maaike Burghoorn , Maaike H. T. de Boer , Stephan Raaijmakers

Although syntactic information is beneficial for many NLP tasks, combining it with contextual information between words to solve the coreference resolution problem needs to be further explored. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end parser…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Yuan Meng , Xuhao Pan , Jun Chang , Yue Wang

Correctly resolving textual mentions of people fundamentally entails making inferences about those people. Such inferences raise the risk of systemic biases in coreference resolution systems, including biases that can harm binary and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Yang Trista Cao , Hal Daumé

This paper presents a pipeline for mitigating gender bias in large language models (LLMs) used in medical literature by neutralizing gendered occupational pronouns. A dataset of 379,000 PubMed abstracts from 1965-1980 was processed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Elizabeth Schaefer , Kirk Roberts

As 3rd-person pronoun usage shifts to include novel forms, e.g., neopronouns, we need more research on identity-inclusive NLP. Exclusion is particularly harmful in one of the most popular NLP applications, machine translation (MT). Wrong…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Anne Lauscher , Debora Nozza , Archie Crowley , Ehm Miltersen , Dirk Hovy