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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…
cs.CL2020
On the Relationships Between the Grammatical Genders of Inanimate Nouns and Their Co-Occurring Adjectives and Verbs
Adina Williams, Ryan Cotterell, Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin +2
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 ge…