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Numerous studies have demonstrated the ability of neural language models to learn various linguistic properties without direct supervision. This work takes an initial step towards exploring the less researched topic of how neural models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Lina Conti , Guillaume Wisniewski

Translating from languages without productive grammatical gender like English into gender-marked languages is a well-known difficulty for machines. This difficulty is also due to the fact that the training data on which models are built…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Luisa Bentivogli , Beatrice Savoldi , Matteo Negri , Mattia Antonino Di Gangi , Roldano Cattoni , Marco Turchi

Gender bias is largely recognized as a problematic phenomenon affecting language technologies, with recent studies underscoring that it might surface differently across languages. However, most of current evaluation practices adopt a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Beatrice Savoldi , Marco Gaido , Luisa Bentivogli , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi

The gender bias present in the data on which language models are pre-trained gets reflected in the systems that use these models. The model's intrinsic gender bias shows an outdated and unequal view of women in our culture and encourages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Neeraja Kirtane , V Manushree , Aditya Kane

Large Language Models are increasingly employed in generating consumer product recommendations, yet their potential for embedding and amplifying gender and race biases remains underexplored. This paper serves as one of the first attempts to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ke Xu , Shera Potka , Alex Thomo

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) and their growing integration into daily life underscore the importance of evaluating and ensuring their fairness. In this work, we examine fairness within the domain of emotional theory…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Maureen Herbert , Katie Sun , Angelica Lim , Yasaman Etesam

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Katie Seaborn , Alexa Frank

Pre-trained language models learn socially harmful biases from their training corpora, and may repeat these biases when used for generation. We study gender biases associated with the protagonist in model-generated stories. Such biases may…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Tenghao Huang , Faeze Brahman , Vered Shwartz , Snigdha Chaturvedi

Languages differ in terms of the absence or presence of gender features, the number of gender classes and whether and where gender features are explicitly marked. These cross-linguistic differences can lead to ambiguities that are difficult…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Eva Vanmassenhove , Johanna Monti

Many of the world's languages employ grammatical gender on the lexeme. For example, in Spanish, the word for 'house' (casa) is feminine, whereas the word for 'paper' (papel) is masculine. To a speaker of a genderless language, this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Adina Williams , Ryan Cotterell , Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin , Damián Blasi , Hanna Wallach

Despite their prevalence in society, social biases are difficult to identify, primarily because human judgements in this domain can be unreliable. We take an unsupervised approach to identifying gender bias against women at a comment level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Anjalie Field , Yulia Tsvetkov

Abusive language detection models tend to have a problem of being biased toward identity words of a certain group of people because of imbalanced training datasets. For example, "You are a good woman" was considered "sexist" when trained on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Ji Ho Park , Jamin Shin , Pascale Fung

Imagine a princess asleep in a castle, waiting for her prince to slay the dragon and rescue her. Tales like the famous Sleeping Beauty clearly divide up gender roles. But what about more modern stories, borne of a generation increasingly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Ethan Fast , Tina Vachovsky , Michael S. Bernstein

When we speak, write or listen, we continuously make predictions based on our knowledge of a language's grammar. Remarkably, children acquire this grammatical knowledge within just a few years, enabling them to understand and generalise to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Jaap Jumelet

Humans continuously adapt their style and language to a variety of domains. However, a reliable definition of `domain' has eluded researchers thus far. Additionally, the notion of discrete domains stands in contrast to the multiplicity of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Sebastian Ruder , Parsa Ghaffari , John G. Breslin

Gender contains a wide range of information regarding to the characteristics difference between male and female. Successful gender recognition is essential and critical for many applications in the commercial domains such as applications of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-03-17 Yingxiao Wu , Yan Zhuang , Xi Long , Feng Lin , Wenyao Xu

The increasing use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in a large variety of domains has sparked worries about how easily they can perpetuate stereotypes and contribute to the generation of biased content. With a focus on gender and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Gioele Giachino , Marco Rondina , Antonio Vetrò , Riccardo Coppola , Juan Carlos De Martin

The language that we produce reflects our personality, and various personal and demographic characteristics can be detected in natural language texts. We focus on one particular personal trait of the author, gender, and study how it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Ella Rabinovich , Shachar Mirkin , Raj Nath Patel , Lucia Specia , Shuly Wintner

The digital traces we leave behind when engaging with the modern world offer an interesting lens through which we study behavioral patterns as expression of gender. Although gender differentiation has been observed in a number of settings,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Ioanna Psylla , Piotr Sapiezynski , Enys Mones , Sune Lehmann

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