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This study delves into the pervasive issue of gender issues in artificial intelligence (AI), specifically within automatic scoring systems for student-written responses. The primary objective is to investigate the presence of gender biases,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Ehsan Latif , Xiaoming Zhai , Lei Liu

Large language models (LLMs) often inherit and amplify social biases embedded in their training data. A prominent social bias is gender bias. In this regard, prior work has mainly focused on gender stereotyping bias - the association of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Erik Derner , Sara Sansalvador de la Fuente , Yoan Gutiérrez , Paloma Moreda , Nuria Oliver

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made substantial progress in the past several months, shattering state-of-the-art benchmarks in many domains. This paper investigates LLMs' behavior with respect to gender stereotypes, a known issue for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Hadas Kotek , Rikker Dockum , David Q. Sun

Text embedding is becoming an increasingly popular AI methodology, especially among businesses, yet the potential of text embedding models to be biased is not well understood. This paper examines the degree to which a selection of popular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Vasyl Rakivnenko , Nestor Maslej , Jessica Cervi , Volodymyr Zhukov

Context. Pair programming (PP) has been found to increase student interest in Computer Science, particularly so for women, and would therefore appear to be a way to help remedy their under-representation, which could be partially motivated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Amador Durán , Pablo Fernández , Beatriz Bernárdez , Nathaniel Weinman , Aslı Akalın , Armando Fox

In this paper, we present the results and findings of the Shared Task on Gender Rewriting, which was organized as part of the Seventh Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop. The task of gender rewriting refers to generating…

Contextualized word embeddings have been replacing standard embeddings as the representational knowledge source of choice in NLP systems. Since a variety of biases have previously been found in standard word embeddings, it is crucial to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Marion Bartl , Malvina Nissim , Albert Gatt

Recursive prompting with large language models enables scalable synthetic dataset generation but introduces the risk of bias amplification. We investigate gender bias dynamics across three generations of recursive text generation using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Ashish Kattamuri , Arpita Vats , Harshwardhan Fartale , Rahul Raja , Akshata Kishore Moharir , Ishita Prasad

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to generate text across various languages, for tasks such as translation, customer support, and education. Despite these advancements, LLMs show notable gender biases in English,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Ishika Joshi , Ishita Gupta , Adrita Dey , Tapan Parikh

In traditional decision making processes, social biases of human decision makers can lead to unequal economic outcomes for underrepresented social groups, such as women, racial or ethnic minorities. Recently, the increasing popularity of…

General Economics · Economics 2024-03-25 Jiafu An , Difang Huang , Chen Lin , Mingzhu Tai

Language models encode and subsequently perpetuate harmful gendered stereotypes. Research has succeeded in mitigating some of these harms, e.g. by dissociating non-gendered terms such as occupations from gendered terms such as 'woman' and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Franziska Sofia Hafner , Ana Valdivia , Luc Rocher

We propose and explore the possibility that language models can be studied as effective proxies for specific human sub-populations in social science research. Practical and research applications of artificial intelligence tools have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Lisa P. Argyle , Ethan C. Busby , Nancy Fulda , Joshua Gubler , Christopher Rytting , David Wingate

Clinical word embeddings are extensively used in various Bio-NLP problems as a state-of-the-art feature vector representation. Although they are quite successful at the semantic representation of words, due to the dataset - which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Gizem Sogancioglu , Fabian Mijsters , Amar van Uden , Jelle Peperzak

Machine learning models are trained to find patterns in data. NLP models can inadvertently learn socially undesirable patterns when training on gender biased text. In this work, we propose a general framework that decomposes gender bias in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Emily Dinan , Angela Fan , Ledell Wu , Jason Weston , Douwe Kiela , Adina Williams

Large Language Models like GPT-4 adjust their responses not only based on the question asked, but also on how it is emotionally phrased. We systematically vary the emotional tone of 156 prompts - spanning controversial and everyday topics -…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Franck Bardol

Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) harbor inherent social biases that can result in harmful real-world implications. Such social biases are measured through the probability values that PLMs output for different social groups and attributes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Rafal Kocielnik , Shrimai Prabhumoye , Vivian Zhang , Roy Jiang , R. Michael Alvarez , Anima Anandkumar

Large Language Models (LLMs) have an increasing impact on our lives with use cases such as chatbots, study support, coding support, ideation, writing assistance, and more. Previous studies have revealed linguistic biases in pronouns used to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Smilla Due , Sneha Das , Marianne Andersen , Berta Plandolit López , Sniff Andersen Nexø , Line Clemmensen

Gender/ing guides how we view ourselves, the world around us, and each other--including non-humans. Critical voices have raised the alarm about stereotyped gendering in the design of socially embodied artificial agents like voice…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Katie Seaborn , Alexa Frank

Masked language models pick up gender biases during pre-training. Such biases are usually attributed to a certain model architecture and its pre-training corpora, with the implicit assumption that other variations in the pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Kenan Tang , Hanchun Jiang

Gender inequality is embedded in our communication practices and perpetuated in translation technologies. This becomes particularly apparent when translating into grammatical gender languages, where machine translation (MT) often defaults…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Andrea Piergentili , Beatrice Savoldi , Dennis Fucci , Matteo Negri , Luisa Bentivogli