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Gender bias in coreference resolution: Evaluation and debiasing methods

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Zhao, Jieyu, Wang, Tianlu, Yatskar, Mark, Ordonez, Vicente, Chang, Kai-Wei·2018·Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers)

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Jieyu Zhao, Tianlu Wang, Mark Yatskar, Vicente Ordonez, Kai-Wei Chang. Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers). 2018.

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  • Winogender differs from WinoBias by only mentioning one occupation, which interacts with a participant rather than another occupation.

    “Winogender also differs from WinoBias by only mentioning one occupation, which instead interacts with a participant, rather than another occupation.”

    From Bias and Fairness in Large Language Models: A Survey (2024) · cites this paper as Zhao et al. 2018

    Section 2 (WinoBias; page not provided) says that WinoBias pairs entities referred to by different occupations, supporting the WinoBias side of the comparison. Our copy does not describe Winogender or establish that it uses one occupation interacting with a participant (searched: Winogender, participant). (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • Winogender includes a neutral pronoun option, whereas WinoBias only provides masculine and feminine pronoun genders.

    “While WinoBias only provides masculine and feminine pronoun genders, Winogender also includes a neutral option.”

    From Bias and Fairness in Large Language Models: A Survey (2024) · cites this paper as Zhao et al. 2018

    Section 2, “WinoBias” (page not supplied), says its sentences are duplicated using male and female pronouns, supporting the WinoBias half of the comparison. The passages found do not describe Winogender or establish that it includes a neutral option. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  • Each WinoBias sentence mentions an interaction between two occupations.

    “Each sentence mentions an interaction between two occupations.”

    From Bias and Fairness in Large Language Models: A Survey (2024) · cites this paper as Zhao et al. 2018

  • Winograd schemas have been adapted for bias evaluation to measure words' associations with social groups, most prominently with Winogender and WinoBias.

    “Winograd schemas have since been adapted for bias evaluation to measure words' associations with social groups, most prominently with Winogender (Rudinger et al. 2018) and WinoBias (Zhao et al. 2018)”

    From Bias and Fairness in Large Language Models: A Survey (2024) · cites this paper as Zhao et al. 2018

  • Some WinoBias sentences contain no syntactic signals (Type 1), while others are resolvable from syntactic information (Type 2).

    “Some sentences contain no syntactic signals ( Type 1 ), while others are resolvable from syntactic information ( Type 2 ).”

    From Bias and Fairness in Large Language Models: A Survey (2024) · cites this paper as Zhao et al. 2018

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Authors
Zhao, J., Wang, T., Yatskar, M., Ordonez, V., & Chang, K.-W.
Affiliations
  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
  • University of Virginia (US)
  • Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (US)
Venue
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers)
Published
2018
Pages
15-20
OpenAlex
W2963526187
Cited by
684
References
5
Citations by year
2026: 45 · 2025: 92 · 2024: 76 · 2023: 129 · 2022: 96 · 2021: 105 · 2020: 87 · 2019: 48 · 2018: 6
FWCI
24.79
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation (1760523)
  • Nvidia
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
Keywords
gender bias, coreference resolution, bias mitigation, evaluation metrics, gender-neutral language

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