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In recent years, pretrained word embeddings have proved useful for multimodal neural machine translation (NMT) models to address the shortage of available datasets. However, the integration of pretrained word embeddings has not yet been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Tosho Hirasawa , Mamoru Komachi

Pre-trained word embeddings encode general word semantics and lexical regularities of natural language, and have proven useful across many NLP tasks, including word sense disambiguation, machine translation, and sentiment analysis, to name…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Alejandro Moreo , Andrea Esuli , Fabrizio Sebastiani

Language models frequently inherit societal biases from their training data. Numerous techniques have been proposed to mitigate these biases during both the pre-training and fine-tuning stages. However, fine-tuning a pre-trained debiased…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Shahed Masoudian , Markus Frohmann , Navid Rekabsaz , Markus Schedl

The Word Embedding Association Test shows that GloVe and word2vec word embeddings exhibit human-like implicit biases based on gender, race, and other social constructs (Caliskan et al., 2017). Meanwhile, research on learning reusable text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Chandler May , Alex Wang , Shikha Bordia , Samuel R. Bowman , Rachel Rudinger

Biases in the dataset often enable the model to achieve high performance on in-distribution data, while poorly performing on out-of-distribution data. To mitigate the detrimental effect of the bias on the networks, previous works have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Eojin Jeon , Mingyu Lee , Juhyeong Park , Yeachan Kim , Wing-Lam Mok , SangKeun Lee

Recently, more and more research has focused on addressing bias in text classification models. However, existing research mainly focuses on the fairness of monolingual text classification models, and research on fairness for multilingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Nankai Lin , Junheng He , Zhenghang Tang , Dong Zhou , Aimin Yang

As natural language processing methods are increasingly deployed in real-world scenarios such as healthcare, legal systems, and social science, it becomes necessary to recognize the role they potentially play in shaping social biases and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Paul Pu Liang , Irene Mengze Li , Emily Zheng , Yao Chong Lim , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Louis-Philippe Morency

While deep learning models are making fast progress on the task of Natural Language Inference, recent studies have also shown that these models achieve high accuracy by exploiting several dataset biases, and without deep understanding of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Xiang Zhou , Mohit Bansal

Recent advances in cross-lingual word embeddings have primarily relied on mapping-based methods, which project pretrained word embeddings from different languages into a shared space through a linear transformation. However, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Ali Sabet , Prakhar Gupta , Jean-Baptiste Cordonnier , Robert West , Martin Jaggi

Acoustic Word Embeddings (AWEs) improve the efficiency of speech retrieval tasks such as Spoken Term Detection (STD) and Keyword Spotting (KWS). However, existing approaches suffer from limitations, including unimodal supervision, disjoint…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Ramesh Gundluru , Shubham Gupta , Sri Rama Murty K

Multilingual Word Embeddings (MWEs) represent words from multiple languages in a single distributional vector space. Unsupervised MWE (UMWE) methods acquire multilingual embeddings without cross-lingual supervision, which is a significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Xilun Chen , Claire Cardie

Word embeddings capture semantic relationships based on contextual information and are the basis for a wide variety of natural language processing applications. Notably these relationships are solely learned from the data and subsequently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Stephanie Brandl , David Lassner , Maximilian Alber

Current advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have made it increasingly feasible to build applications leveraging textual data. Generally, the core of these applications rely on having a good semantic representation of text into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Thomas Uriot

Societal biases in the usage of words, including harmful stereotypes, are frequently learned by common word embedding methods. These biases manifest not only between a word and an explicit marker of its stereotype, but also between words…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Erin George , Joyce Chew , Deanna Needell

Most existing word embedding approaches do not distinguish the same words in different contexts, therefore ignoring their contextual meanings. As a result, the learned embeddings of these words are usually a mixture of multiple meanings. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-04 Jian Tang , Meng Qu , Qiaozhu Mei

Word embeddings have been shown to produce remarkable results in tackling a vast majority of NLP related tasks. Unfortunately, word embeddings also capture the stereotypical biases that are prevalent in society, affecting the predictive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Navya Yarrabelly , Vinay Damodaran , Feng-Guang Su

Sense embedding learning methods learn different embeddings for the different senses of an ambiguous word. One sense of an ambiguous word might be socially biased while its other senses remain unbiased. In comparison to the numerous prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Yi Zhou , Masahiro Kaneko , Danushka Bollegala

Social bias in language models can potentially exacerbate social inequalities. Despite it having garnered wide attention, most research focuses on English data. In a low-resource scenario, the models often perform worse due to insufficient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Ej Zhou , Weiming Lu

Word vector embeddings have been shown to contain and amplify biases in data they are extracted from. Consequently, many techniques have been proposed to identify, mitigate, and attenuate these biases in word representations. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Archit Rathore , Sunipa Dev , Jeff M. Phillips , Vivek Srikumar , Yan Zheng , Chin-Chia Michael Yeh , Junpeng Wang , Wei Zhang , Bei Wang

Speech emotion recognition (SER) systems often exhibit gender bias. However, the effectiveness and robustness of existing debiasing methods in such multi-label scenarios remain underexplored. To address this gap, we present EMO-Debias, a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-06 Yi-Cheng Lin , Huang-Cheng Chou , Yu-Hsuan Li Liang , Hung-yi Lee