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A review of Word Embedding Models through a deconstructive approach reveals their several shortcomings and inconsistencies. These include instability of the vector representations, a distorted analogical reasoning, geometric incompatibility…

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Despite widespread use in natural language processing (NLP) tasks, word embeddings have been criticized for inheriting unintended gender bias from training corpora. programmer is more closely associated with man and homemaker is more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Haswanth Aekula , Sugam Garg , Animesh Gupta

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

Though notable progress has been made, neural-based aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) models are prone to learn spurious correlations from annotation biases, resulting in poor robustness on adversarial data transformations. Among the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Jialong Wu , Linhai Zhang , Deyu Zhou , Guoqiang Xu

Ensuring a neural network is not relying on protected attributes (e.g., race, sex, age) for prediction is crucial in advancing fair and trustworthy AI. While several promising methods for removing attribute bias in neural networks have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Jiazhi Li , Mahyar Khayatkhoei , Jiageng Zhu , Hanchen Xie , Mohamed E. Hussein , Wael AbdAlmageed

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

Studies have shown that some Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems encode and replicate harmful biases with potential adverse ethical effects in our society. In this article, we propose an approach for identifying gender and racial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Sean Matthews , John Hudzina , Dawn Sepehr

Slanted news coverage, also called media bias, can heavily influence how news consumers interpret and react to the news. To automatically identify biased language, we present an exploratory approach that compares the context of related…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Timo Spinde , Lada Rudnitckaia , Felix Hamborg , Bela Gipp

Social scientists have recently turned to analyzing text using tools from natural language processing like word embeddings to measure concepts like ideology, bias, and affinity. However, word embeddings are difficult to use in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Adam M. Lauretig

In comparison to the numerous debiasing methods proposed for the static non-contextualised word embeddings, the discriminative biases in contextualised embeddings have received relatively little attention. We propose a fine-tuning method…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Masahiro Kaneko , Danushka Bollegala

Many studies have shown various biases targeting different demographic groups in language models, amplifying discrimination and harming fairness. Recent parameter modification debiasing approaches significantly degrade core capabilities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Dianqing Liu , Yi Liu , Guoqing Jin , Zhendong Mao

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

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

Large language models (LLMs) trained on vast corpora suffer from inevitable stereotype biases. Mitigating these biases with fine-tuning could be both costly and data-hungry. Model editing methods, which focus on modifying LLMs in a post-hoc…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Jianhao Yan , Futing Wang , Yafu Li , Yue Zhang

Previous studies have established that language models manifest stereotyped biases. Existing debiasing strategies, such as retraining a model with counterfactual data, representation projection, and prompting often fail to efficiently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Xin Xu , Wei Xu , Ningyu Zhang , Julian McAuley

Word embeddings carry stereotypical connotations from the text they are trained on, which can lead to invalid inferences in downstream models that rely on them. We use this observation to design a mechanism for measuring stereotypes using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Sunipa Dev , Tao Li , Jeff Phillips , Vivek Srikumar

Intersectional bias is a bias caused by an overlap of multiple social factors like gender, sexuality, race, disability, religion, etc. A recent study has shown that word embedding models can be laden with biases against intersectional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Bhavya Ghai , Md Naimul Hoque , Klaus Mueller

Word embedding, which converts words into numerical values, is an important natural language processing technique and widely used. One of the serious problems of word embedding is that the bias will be learned and affect the model if the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Arisa Sugino , Takayuki Itoh

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

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