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Fairness in artificial intelligence (AI) has become a growing concern due to discriminatory outcomes in AI-based decision-making systems. While various methods have been proposed to mitigate bias, most rely on complete demographic…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zichong Wang , Zhipeng Yin , Roland H. C. Yap , Wenbin Zhang

The need to address representation biases and sentencing disparities in legal case data has long been recognized. Here, we study the problem of identifying and measuring biases in large-scale legal case data from an algorithmic fairness…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Jackson Sargent , Melanie Weber

As Machine Learning technologies become increasingly used in contexts that affect citizens, companies as well as researchers need to be confident that their application of these methods will not have unexpected social implications, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Simon Caton , Christian Haas

Modern NLP systems exhibit a range of biases, which a growing literature on model debiasing attempts to correct. However current progress is hampered by a plurality of definitions of bias, means of quantification, and oftentimes vague…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Xudong Han , Timothy Baldwin , Trevor Cohn

The importance of addressing fairness and bias in artificial intelligence (AI) systems cannot be over-emphasized. Mainstream media has been awashed with news of incidents around stereotypes and other types of bias in many of these systems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Tosin Adewumi , Lama Alkhaled , Namrata Gurung , Goya van Boven , Irene Pagliai

The subject of "fairness" in artificial intelligence (AI) refers to assessing AI algorithms for potential bias based on demographic characteristics such as race and gender, and the development of algorithms to address this bias. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Esther Puyol-Anton , Bram Ruijsink , Stefan K. Piechnik , Stefan Neubauer , Steffen E. Petersen , Reza Razavi , Andrew P. King

Artificial Intelligence has the potential to exacerbate societal bias and set back decades of advances in equal rights and civil liberty. Data used to train machine learning algorithms may capture social injustices, inequality or…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Susan Leavy , Barry O'Sullivan , Eugenia Siapera

Recently there are increasing concerns about the fairness of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in real-world applications such as computer vision and recommendations. For example, recognition algorithms in computer vision are unfair to black…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Haochen Liu , Jamell Dacon , Wenqi Fan , Hui Liu , Zitao Liu , Jiliang Tang

NLP in the legal domain has seen increasing success with the emergence of Transformer-based Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) pre-trained on legal text. PLMs trained over European and US legal text are available publicly; however, legal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Shounak Paul , Arpan Mandal , Pawan Goyal , Saptarshi Ghosh

The Artificial Intelligence field, or AI, experienced a renaissance in the last few years across various fields such as law, medicine, and finance. While there are studies outlining the landscape of AI in the legal field as well as surveys…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Daniela Andreeva , Guergana Savova

This paper presents novel experiments shedding light on the shortcomings of current metrics for assessing biases of gender discrimination made by machine learning algorithms on textual data. We focus on the Bios dataset, and our learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Fanny Jourdan , Laurent Risser , Jean-Michel Loubes , Nicholas Asher

Large Language Models (LLMs), trained on extensive datasets from the web, exhibit remarkable general reasoning skills. Despite this, they often struggle in specialized areas like law, mainly because they lack domain-specific pretraining.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Mann Khatri , Mirza Yusuf , Rajiv Ratn Shah , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

Availability of challenging benchmarks is the key to advancement of AI in a specific field.Since Legal Text is significantly different than normal English text, there is a need to create separate Natural Language Processing benchmarks for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Prathamesh Kalamkar , Janani Venugopalan Ph. D. , Vivek Raghavan Ph. D

Empirical evidence suggests that algorithmic decisions driven by Machine Learning (ML) techniques threaten to discriminate against legally protected groups or create new sources of unfairness. This work supports the contextual approach to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Lisa Koutsoviti Koumeri , Magali Legast , Yasaman Yousefi , Koen Vanhoof , Axel Legay , Christoph Schommer

Various forms of implications of artificial intelligence that either exacerbate or decrease racial systemic injustice have been explored in this applied research endeavor. Taking each thematic area of identifying, analyzing, and debating an…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Alia Abbas

Algorithmic discrimination is a critical concern as machine learning models are used in high-stakes decision-making in legally protected contexts. Although substantial research on algorithmic bias and discrimination has led to the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Holli Sargeant , Måns Magnusson

Massive efforts are made to reduce biases in both data and algorithms in order to render AI applications fair. These efforts are propelled by various high-profile cases where biased algorithmic decision-making caused harm to women, people…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Thilo Hagendorff , Leonie Bossert , Tse Yip Fai , Peter Singer

Avoiding bias and understanding the real-world consequences of AI-supported decision-making are critical to address fairness and assign accountability. Existing approaches often focus either on technical aspects, such as datasets and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Mattias Brännström , Themis Dimitra Xanthopoulou , Lili Jiang

Fairness,the impartial treatment towards individuals or groups regardless of their inherent or acquired characteristics [20], is a critical challenge for the successful implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in multiple fields like…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Catalina M Jaramillo , Paul Squires , Julian Togelius

With the advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs), there is a profound transformation occurring in the realm of natural language processing tasks within the legal domain. The capabilities of LLMs are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Weicong Qin , Zhongxiang Sun