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Gender bias represents a form of systematic negative treatment that targets individuals based on their gender. This discrimination can range from subtle sexist remarks and gendered stereotypes to outright hate speech. Prior research has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Karolina Stańczak

Natural language generation models reproduce and often amplify the biases present in their training data. Previous research explored using sequence-to-sequence rewriting models to transform biased model outputs (or original texts) into more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Chantal Amrhein , Florian Schottmann , Rico Sennrich , Samuel Läubli

Gender bias in artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing has garnered significant attention due to its potential impact on societal perceptions and biases. This research paper aims to analyze gender bias in Large Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Vishesh Thakur

Gender bias in pretrained language models (PLMs) poses significant social and ethical challenges. Despite growing awareness, there is a lack of comprehensive investigation into how different models internally represent and propagate such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mahdi Zakizadeh , Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

Language serves as a powerful tool for the manifestation of societal belief systems. In doing so, it also perpetuates the prevalent biases in our society. Gender bias is one of the most pervasive biases in our society and is seen in online…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Rishav Hada , Agrima Seth , Harshita Diddee , Kalika Bali

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as Mistral and LLaMA have showcased remarkable performance across various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Despite their success, these models inherit social biases from the diverse datasets on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Nirmalendu Prakash , Lee Ka Wei Roy

During training, Large Language Models (LLMs) learn social regularities that can lead to gender bias in downstream applications. Most mitigation efforts focus on reducing bias in generated outputs, typically evaluated on structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Nour Bouchouchi , Thibault Laugel , Xavier Renard , Christophe Marsala , Marie-Jeanne Lesot , Marcin Detyniecki

When exposed to human-generated data, language models are known to learn and amplify societal biases. While previous works introduced benchmarks that can be used to assess the bias in these models, they rely on assumptions that may not be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Angana Borah , Aparna Garimella , Rada Mihalcea

Word embeddings are extensively used in various NLP problems as a state-of-the-art semantic feature vector representation. Despite their success on various tasks and domains, they might exhibit an undesired bias for stereotypical categories…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Gizem Sogancioglu , Heysem Kaya

Gender biases in language generation systems are challenging to mitigate. One possible source for these biases is gender representation disparities in the training and evaluation data. Despite recent progress in documenting this problem and…

Language model debiasing has emerged as an important field of study in the NLP community. Numerous debiasing techniques were proposed, but bias ablation remains an unaddressed issue. We demonstrate a novel framework for inspecting bias in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Przemyslaw Joniak , Akiko Aizawa

Generative AI, such as large language models, has undergone rapid development within recent years. As these models become increasingly available to the public, concerns arise about perpetuating and amplifying harmful biases in applications.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Sara Sterlie , Nina Weng , Aasa Feragen

Neural Machine Translation systems built on top of Transformer-based architectures are routinely improving the state-of-the-art in translation quality according to word-overlap metrics. However, a growing number of studies also highlight…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Shanya Sharma , Manan Dey , Koustuv Sinha

We analyze 6.7 million case law documents to determine the presence of gender bias within our judicial system. We find that current bias detectino methods in NLP are insufficient to determine gender bias in our case law database and propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Noa Baker Gillis

The representations in large language models contain multiple types of gender information. We focus on two types of such signals in English texts: factual gender information, which is a grammatical or semantic property, and gender bias,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Tomasz Limisiewicz , David Mareček

As NLP models become more integrated with the everyday lives of people, it becomes important to examine the social effect that the usage of these systems has. While these models understand language and have increased accuracy on difficult…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Rajas Bansal

Progress in natural language generation research has been shaped by the ever-growing size of language models. While large language models pre-trained on web data can generate human-sounding text, they also reproduce social biases and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Celine Wald , Lukas Pfahler

We introduce ProText, a dataset for measuring gendering and misgendering in stylistically diverse long-form English texts. ProText spans three dimensions: Theme nouns (names, occupations, titles, kinship terms), Theme category…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Hadas Kotek , Margit Bowler , Patrick Sonnenberg , Yu'an Yang

With widening deployments of natural language processing (NLP) in daily life, inherited social biases from NLP models have become more severe and problematic. Previous studies have shown that word embeddings trained on human-generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Lei Ding , Dengdeng Yu , Jinhan Xie , Wenxing Guo , Shenggang Hu , Meichen Liu , Linglong Kong , Hongsheng Dai , Yanchun Bao , Bei Jiang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing, yet concerns persist regarding their tendency to reflect or amplify social biases. This study introduces a novel evaluation framework to uncover gender biases in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Evan Chen , Run-Jun Zhan , Yan-Bai Lin , Hung-Hsuan Chen