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Artificial Intelligence has the capacity to amplify and perpetuate societal biases and presents profound ethical implications for society. Gender bias has been identified in the context of employment advertising and recruitment tools, due…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Susan Leavy , Gerardine Meaney , Karen Wade , Derek Greene

Gender bias is highly impacting natural language processing applications. Word embeddings have clearly been proven both to keep and amplify gender biases that are present in current data sources. Recently, contextualized word embeddings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Christine Basta , Marta R. Costa-jussà , Noe Casas

We investigate how people perceive ChatGPT, and, in particular, how they assign human-like attributes such as gender to the chatbot. Across five pre-registered studies (N = 1,552), we find that people are more likely to perceive ChatGPT to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Jared Wong , Jin Kim

LLMs have emerged as a promising tool for assisting individuals in diverse text-generation tasks, including job-related texts. However, LLM-generated answers have been increasingly found to exhibit gender bias. This study evaluates three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Haein Kong , Yongsu Ahn , Sangyub Lee , Yunho Maeng

This paper presents a software allowing to describe voices using a continuous Voice Femininity Percentage (VFP). This system is intended for transgender speakers during their voice transition and for voice therapists supporting them in this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-24 David Doukhan , Simon Devauchelle , Lucile Girard-Monneron , Mía Chávez Ruz , V. Chaddouk , Isabelle Wagner , Albert Rilliard

Voice conversion (VC) and text-to-speech (TTS) are two tasks that share a similar objective, generating speech with a target voice. However, they are usually developed independently under vastly different frameworks. In this paper, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-17 Hieu-Thi Luong , Junichi Yamagishi

Bias-measuring datasets play a critical role in detecting biased behavior of language models and in evaluating progress of bias mitigation methods. In this work, we focus on evaluating gender bias through coreference resolution, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Zhongbin Xie , Vid Kocijan , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Oana-Maria Camburu

We investigate a new setting for foreign language learning, where learners infer the meaning of unfamiliar words in a multimodal context of a sentence describing a paired image. We conduct studies with human participants using different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yufei Wang , Adriana Kovashka , Loretta Fernández , Marc N. Coutanche , Seth Wiener

We present a novel approach to multilingual audio-visual speech recognition tasks by introducing a single model on a multilingual dataset. Motivated by a human cognitive system where humans can intuitively distinguish different languages…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Joanna Hong , Se Jin Park , Yong Man Ro

The virtuosity of language models like GPT-3 opens a new world of possibility for human-AI collaboration in writing. In this paper, we present a framework in which generative language models are conceptualized as multiverse generators. This…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Laria Reynolds , Kyle McDonell

Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate biased and toxic responses. Yet most prior work on LLM gender bias evaluation requires predefined gender-related phrases or gender stereotypes, which are challenging to be comprehensively collected…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Xiangjue Dong , Yibo Wang , Philip S. Yu , James Caverlee

Expressive text-to-speech (TTS) aims to synthesize different speaking style speech according to human's demands. Nowadays, there are two common ways to control speaking styles: (1) Pre-defining a group of speaking style and using…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Dongchao Yang , Songxiang Liu , Rongjie Huang , Chao Weng , Helen Meng

This chapter examines the role of Machine Translation in perpetuating gender bias, highlighting the challenges posed by cross-linguistic settings and statistical dependencies. A comprehensive overview of relevant existing work related to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Eva Vanmassenhove

Dialogue systems play an increasingly important role in various aspects of our daily life. It is evident from recent research that dialogue systems trained on human conversation data are biased. In particular, they can produce responses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Haochen Liu , Wentao Wang , Yiqi Wang , Hui Liu , Zitao Liu , Jiliang Tang

Gender stereotypes are manifest in most of the world's languages and are consequently propagated or amplified by NLP systems. Although research has focused on mitigating gender stereotypes in English, the approaches that are commonly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Ran Zmigrod , Sabrina J. Mielke , Hanna Wallach , Ryan Cotterell

Zero-shot multi-speaker TTS aims to synthesize speech with the voice of a chosen target speaker without any fine-tuning. Prevailing methods, however, encounter limitations at adapting to new speakers of out-of-domain settings, primarily due…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Yejin Jeon , Yunsu Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

Combating online hate speech in multilingual settings requires approaches that go beyond English-centric models and capture the cultural and linguistic diversity of global online discourse. This paper presents a comprehensive survey and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Zahra Safdari Fesaghandis , Suman Kalyan Maity

Automatic Gender Recognition (AGR) systems are an increasingly widespread application in the Machine Learning (ML) landscape. While these systems are typically understood as detecting gender, they often classify datapoints based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Camilla Quaresmini , Giacomo Zanotti

The social biases and unwelcome stereotypes revealed by pretrained language models are becoming obstacles to their application. Compared to numerous debiasing methods targeting word level, there has been relatively less attention on biases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Bingkang Shi , Xiaodan Zhang , Dehan Kong , Yulei Wu , Zongzhen Liu , Honglei Lyu , Longtao Huang

With language models being deployed increasingly in the real world, it is essential to address the issue of the fairness of their outputs. The word embedding representations of these language models often implicitly draw unwanted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Gauri Gupta , Krithika Ramesh , Sanjay Singh