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Multi-modal search engines have experienced significant growth and widespread use in recent years, making them the second most common internet use. While search engine systems offer a range of services, the image search field has recently…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Swagatika Dash

In this paper, we pose the question: do people talk about women and men in different ways? We introduce two datasets and a novel integration of approaches for automatically inferring gender associations from language, discovering coherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Serina Chang , Kathleen McKeown

Recent developments in Neural Relation Extraction (NRE) have made significant strides towards Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC). While much attention has been dedicated towards improvements in accuracy, there have been no…

This paper presents a new method for automatically detecting words with lexical gender in large-scale language datasets. Currently, the evaluation of gender bias in natural language processing relies on manually compiled lexicons of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Marion Bartl , Susan Leavy

An increasing number of studies have examined the social bias of rapidly developed large language models (LLMs). Although most of these studies have focused on bias occurring in a single social attribute, research in social science has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Hitomi Yanaka , Xinqi He , Jie Lu , Namgi Han , Sunjin Oh , Ryoma Kumon , Yuma Matsuoka , Katsuhiko Watabe , Yuko Itatsu

Gender contains a wide range of information regarding to the characteristics difference between male and female. Successful gender recognition is essential and critical for many applications in the commercial domains such as applications of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-03-17 Yingxiao Wu , Yan Zhuang , Xi Long , Feng Lin , Wenyao Xu

This paper addresses the issue of implicit stereotypes that may arise during the generation process of large language models. It proposes an interpretable bias detection method aimed at identifying hidden social biases in model outputs,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Renhan Zhang , Lian Lian , Zhen Qi , Guiran Liu

Large pre-trained language models have become a crucial backbone for many downstream tasks in natural language processing (NLP), and while they are trained on a plethora of data containing a variety of biases, such as gender biases, it has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Rick Wilming , Artur Dox , Hjalmar Schulz , Marta Oliveira , Benedict Clark , Stefan Haufe

Pre-trained language models learn socially harmful biases from their training corpora, and may repeat these biases when used for generation. We study gender biases associated with the protagonist in model-generated stories. Such biases may…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Tenghao Huang , Faeze Brahman , Vered Shwartz , Snigdha Chaturvedi

As LLMs are increasingly integrated into user-facing applications, addressing biases that perpetuate societal inequalities is crucial. While much work has gone into measuring or mitigating biases in these models, fewer studies have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Marion Thaler , Abdullatif Köksal , Alina Leidinger , Anna Korhonen , Hinrich Schütze

Predictive algorithms have a powerful potential to offer benefits in areas as varied as medicine or education. However, these algorithms and the data they use are built by humans, consequently, they can inherit the bias and prejudices…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Cristina Manresa-Yee , Silvia Ramis

We examine LLM representations of gender for first names in various occupational contexts to study how occupations and the gender perception of first names in LLMs influence each other mutually. We find that LLMs' first-name gender…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Haozhe An , Connor Baumler , Abhilasha Sancheti , Rachel Rudinger

Pretrained language models inherently exhibit various social biases, prompting a crucial examination of their social impact across various linguistic contexts due to their widespread usage. Previous studies have provided numerous methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Jayanta Sadhu , Ayan Antik Khan , Abhik Bhattacharjee , Rifat Shahriyar

Large Language Models (LLMs) inherit explicit and implicit biases from their training datasets. Identifying and mitigating biases in LLMs is crucial to ensure fair outputs, as they can perpetuate harmful stereotypes and misinformation. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Fatima Kazi , Alex Young , Yash Inani , Setareh Rafatirad

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

Visually-grounded spoken language datasets can enable models to learn cross-modal correspondences with very weak supervision. However, modern audio-visual datasets contain biases that undermine the real-world performance of models trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Ian Palmer , Andrew Rouditchenko , Andrei Barbu , Boris Katz , James Glass

Our society is plagued by several biases, including racial biases, caste biases, and gender bias. As a matter of fact, several years ago, most of these notions were unheard of. These biases passed through generations along with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Lavisha Aggarwal , Shruti Bhargava

Interpretability can be implemented to understand decisions taken by (black box) models, such as neural machine translation (NMT) or large language models (LLMs). Yet, research in this area has been limited in relation to a manifested…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Janiça Hackenbuchner , Arda Tezcan , Joke Daems

Deep learning based visual-linguistic multimodal models such as Contrastive Language Image Pre-training (CLIP) have become increasingly popular recently and are used within text-to-image generative models such as DALL-E and Stable…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Abhishek Mandal , Suzanne Little , Susan Leavy

Despite their prevalence in society, social biases are difficult to identify, primarily because human judgements in this domain can be unreliable. We take an unsupervised approach to identifying gender bias against women at a comment level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Anjalie Field , Yulia Tsvetkov
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