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Semi-Supervised Topic Modeling for Gender Bias Discovery in English and Swedish
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Computing Science. Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS). (Foundations of Language Processing)
Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4954-4397
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Computing Science. (Foundations of Language Processing)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4696-9787
2020 (English)In: Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing / [ed] Marta R. Costa-jussà, Christian Hardmeier, Will Radford, Kellie Webster, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020, p. 79-92Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Gender bias has been identified in many models for Natural Language Processing, stemming from implicit biases in the text corpora used to train the models. Such corpora are too large to closely analyze for biased or stereotypical content. Thus, we argue for a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, where the quantitative part produces a view of the data of a size suitable for qualitative analysis. We investigate the usefulness of semi-supervised topic modeling for the detection and analysis of gender bias in three corpora (mainstream news articles in English and Swedish, and LGBTQ+ web content in English). We compare differences in topic models for three gender categories (masculine, feminine, and nonbinary or neutral) in each corpus. We find that in all corpora, genders are treated differently and that these differences tend to correspond to hegemonic ideas of gender.

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Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020. p. 79-92
Keywords [en]
gender bias, topic modelling
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Language Technology (Computational Linguistics) Gender Studies
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Computer Science; gender studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-177576OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-177576DiVA, id: diva2:1509697
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GeBNLP2020, COLING'2020 – The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, December 8-13, 2020, Online
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EQUITBLAvailable from: 2020-12-14 Created: 2020-12-14 Last updated: 2021-01-14Bibliographically approved

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