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most citedProblem Formulation and Fairness

228 citations · 604 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.LG202229 cited

REAL ML: Recognizing, Exploring, and Articulating Limitations of Machine Learning Research

Jessie J. Smith, Saleema Amershi, Solon Barocas +2

Transparency around limitations can improve the scientific rigor of research, help ensure appropriate interpretation of research findings, and make research claims more credible. D…

cs.CY202238 cited

An Uncommon Task: Participatory Design in Legal AI

Fernando Delgado, Solon Barocas, Karen Levy

Despite growing calls for participation in AI design, there are to date few empirical studies of what these processes look like and how they can be structured for meaningful engage…

cs.CY202148 cited

Algorithmic Auditing and Social Justice: Lessons from the History of Audit Studies

Briana Vecchione, Solon Barocas, Karen Levy

Algorithmic audits have been embraced as tools to investigate the functioning and consequences of sociotechnical systems. Though the term is used somewhat loosely in the algorithmi…

cs.CY202135 cited

Computer Vision and Conflicting Values: Describing People with Automated Alt Text

Margot Hanley, Solon Barocas, Karen Levy +2

Scholars have recently drawn attention to a range of controversial issues posed by the use of computer vision for automatically generating descriptions of people in images. Despite…

cs.CY2021

On Modeling Human Perceptions of Allocation Policies with Uncertain Outcomes

Hoda Heidari, Solon Barocas, Jon Kleinberg +1

Many policies allocate harms or benefits that are uncertain in nature: they produce distributions over the population in which individuals have different probabilities of incurring…

cs.CL2020

Language (Technology) is Power: A Critical Survey of "Bias" in NLP

Su Lin Blodgett, Solon Barocas, Hal Daumé +1

We survey 146 papers analyzing "bias" in NLP systems, finding that their motivations are often vague, inconsistent, and lacking in normative reasoning, despite the fact that analyz…