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The task of image captioning implicitly involves gender identification. However, due to the gender bias in data, gender identification by an image captioning model suffers. Also, the gender-activity bias, owing to the word-by-word…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Shruti Bhargava , David Forsyth

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) are trained on data that inherently contains gender biases, leading to undesirable impacts. Traditional debiasing methods often rely on external corpora, which may lack quality, diversity, or demographic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Liu Yu , Ludie Guo , Ping Kuang , Fan Zhou

Transformer-based pretrained large language models (PLM) such as BERT and GPT have achieved remarkable success in NLP tasks. However, PLMs are prone to encoding stereotypical biases. Although a burgeoning literature has emerged on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yi Yang , Hanyu Duan , Ahmed Abbasi , John P. Lalor , Kar Yan Tam

Many text corpora exhibit socially problematic biases, which can be propagated or amplified in the models trained on such data. For example, doctor cooccurs more frequently with male pronouns than female pronouns. In this study we (i)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Shikha Bordia , Samuel R. Bowman

As teachers increasingly turn to GenAI in their educational practice, we need robust methods to benchmark large language models (LLMs) for pedagogical purposes. This article presents an embedding-based benchmarking framework to detect bias…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yishan Du , Conrad Borchers , Mutlu Cukurova

Numerous types of social biases have been identified in pre-trained language models (PLMs), and various intrinsic bias evaluation measures have been proposed for quantifying those social biases. Prior works have relied on human annotated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Masahiro Kaneko , Danushka Bollegala , Naoaki Okazaki

Neural machine translation (NMT) models often suffer from gender biases that harm users and society at large. In this work, we explore how bridging the gap between languages for which parallel data is not available affects gender bias in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Lena Cabrera , Jan Niehues

While gender bias in large language models (LLMs) has been extensively studied in many domains, uses of LLMs in e-commerce remain largely unexamined and may reveal novel forms of algorithmic bias and harm. Our work investigates this space,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Markelle Kelly , Mohammad Tahaei , Padhraic Smyth , Lauren Wilcox

With the introduction of ChatGPT, OpenAI made large language models (LLM) accessible to users with limited IT expertise. However, users with no background in natural language processing (NLP) might lack a proper understanding of LLMs. Thus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Stefanie Urchs , Veronika Thurner , Matthias Aßenmacher , Christian Heumann , Stephanie Thiemichen

Large Language Models (LLMs) are prone to generating content that exhibits gender biases, raising significant ethical concerns. Alignment, the process of fine-tuning LLMs to better align with desired behaviors, is recognized as an effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Tao Zhang , Ziqian Zeng , Yuxiang Xiao , Huiping Zhuang , Cen Chen , James Foulds , Shimei Pan

We present the first challenge set and evaluation protocol for the analysis of gender bias in machine translation (MT). Our approach uses two recent coreference resolution datasets composed of English sentences which cast participants into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Gabriel Stanovsky , Noah A. Smith , Luke Zettlemoyer

We propose misogyny detection as an Argumentative Reasoning task and we investigate the capacity of large language models (LLMs) to understand the implicit reasoning used to convey misogyny in both Italian and English. The central aim is to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Arianna Muti , Federico Ruggeri , Khalid Al-Khatib , Alberto Barrón-Cedeño , Tommaso Caselli

Gender bias is largely recognized as a problematic phenomenon affecting language technologies, with recent studies underscoring that it might surface differently across languages. However, most of current evaluation practices adopt a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Beatrice Savoldi , Marco Gaido , Luisa Bentivogli , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi

Gender bias in word embeddings gradually becomes a vivid research field in recent years. Most studies in this field aim at measurement and debiasing methods with English as the target language. This paper investigates gender bias in static…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Meichun Jiao , Ziyang Luo

Discriminatory gender biases have been found in Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) for multiple languages. In Natural Language Inference (NLI), existing bias evaluation methods have focused on the prediction results of one specific label…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Panatchakorn Anantaprayoon , Masahiro Kaneko , Naoaki Okazaki

The influence of Large Language Models (LLMs) is rapidly growing, automating more jobs over time. Assessing the fairness of LLMs is crucial due to their expanding impact. Studies reveal the reflection of societal norms and biases in LLMs,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Jayanta Sadhu , Maneesha Rani Saha , Rifat Shahriyar

Name-based gender prediction has traditionally categorized individuals as either female or male based on their names, using a binary classification system. That binary approach can be problematic in the cases of gender-neutral names that do…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zhiwen You , HaeJin Lee , Shubhanshu Mishra , Sullam Jeoung , Apratim Mishra , Jinseok Kim , Jana Diesner

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are in a period of astounding growth. However, there are concerns that these technologies may be used, either with or without intention, to perpetuate the prejudice and unfairness that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Aylin Caliskan , Joanna J. Bryson , Arvind Narayanan

We use large-scale corpora in six different gendered languages, along with tools from NLP and information theory, to test whether there is a relationship between the grammatical genders of inanimate nouns and the adjectives used to describe…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Adina Williams , Ryan Cotterell , Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin , Damián Blasi , Hanna Wallach

This paper investigates the subtle and often concealed biases present in Large Language Models (LLMs), focusing on implicit biases that may remain despite passing explicit bias tests. Implicit biases are significant because they influence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Serene Lim , María Pérez-Ortiz