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Machine translation systems with inadequate document understanding can make errors when translating dropped or neutral pronouns into languages with gendered pronouns (e.g., English). Predicting the underlying gender of these pronouns is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Kellie Webster , Emily Pitler

Dictionaries are often developed using tools that save to Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based standards. These standards often allow high-level repeating elements to represent lexical entries, and utilize descendants of these repeating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Paul Rodrigues , David Zajic , David Doermann , Michael Bloodgood , Peng Ye

In an effort to better understand meaning from natural language texts, we explore methods aimed at organizing lexical objects into contexts. A number of these methods for organization fall into a family defined by word ordering. Unlike…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Jake Ryland Williams , Eric M. Clark , James P. Bagrow , Christopher M. Danforth , Peter Sheridan Dodds

Text is a vehicle to convey information that reflects the writer's linguistic style and communicative patterns. By studying these attributes, we can discover latent insights about the author and their underlying message. This article uses…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Deborah Gerhardt , Miriam Marcowitz-Bitton , W. Michael Schuster , Avshalom Elmalech , Omri Suissa , Moshe Mash

Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate biased responses. Yet previous direct probing techniques contain either gender mentions or predefined gender stereotypes, which are challenging to comprehensively collect. Hence, we propose an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Xiangjue Dong , Yibo Wang , Philip S. Yu , James Caverlee

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

Language can be used as a means of reproducing and enforcing harmful stereotypes and biases and has been analysed as such in numerous research. In this paper, we present a survey of 304 papers on gender bias in natural language processing.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Karolina Stanczak , Isabelle Augenstein

Gender-inclusive language is often used with the aim of ensuring that all individuals, regardless of gender, can be associated with certain concepts. While psycholinguistic studies have examined its effects in relation to human cognition,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Marion Bartl , Thomas Brendan Murphy , Susan Leavy

Gender-neutral translation (GNT) aims to avoid expressing the gender of human referents when the source text lacks explicit cues about the gender of those referents. Evaluating GNT automatically is particularly challenging, with current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Andrea Piergentili , Beatrice Savoldi , Matteo Negri , Luisa Bentivogli

Social media platforms must filter sexist content in compliance with governmental regulations. Current machine learning approaches can reliably detect sexism based on standardized definitions, but often neglect the subjective nature of…

The detection of sexism in online content remains an open problem, as harmful language disproportionately affects women and marginalized groups. While automated systems for sexism detection have been developed, they still face two key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Sahrish Khan , Arshad Jhumka , Gabriele Pergola

Texts like news, encyclopedias, and some social media strive for objectivity. Yet bias in the form of inappropriate subjectivity - introducing attitudes via framing, presupposing truth, and casting doubt - remains ubiquitous. This kind of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Reid Pryzant , Richard Diehl Martinez , Nathan Dass , Sadao Kurohashi , Dan Jurafsky , Diyi Yang

The rise of social networks has not only facilitated communication but also allowed the spread of harmful content. Although significant advances have been made in detecting toxic language in textual data, the exploration of concept-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Samarth Garg , Divya Singh , Deeksha Varshney , Mamta

Language carries implicit human biases, functioning both as a reflection and a perpetuation of stereotypes that people carry with them. Recently, ML-based NLP methods such as word embeddings have been shown to learn such language biases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Xavier Ferrer-Aran , Tom van Nuenen , Natalia Criado , Jose M. Such

We present a data-driven approach using word embeddings to discover and categorise language biases on the discussion platform Reddit. As spaces for isolated user communities, platforms such as Reddit are increasingly connected to issues of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Xavier Ferrer , Tom van Nuenen , Jose M. Such , Natalia Criado

The grammatical gender of Swedish nouns is a mystery. While there are few rules that can indicate the gender with some certainty, it does in general not depend on either meaning or the structure of the word. In this paper we demonstrate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Edvin Listo Zec , Olof Mogren

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

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

In this paper we present some experiments to automatically classify online handwritten text based on capital letters. Although handwritten text is not as discriminative as face or voice, we still found some chance for gender classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Marcos Faundez-Zanuy , Enric Sesa-Nogueras

Recent advances in pre-trained language modeling have facilitated significant progress across various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Word masking during model training constitutes a pivotal component of language modeling in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Anas Belfathi , Ygor Gallina , Nicolas Hernandez , Richard Dufour , Laura Monceaux