Survey of the state of the art in natural language generation: Core tasks, applications and evaluation

A Gatt, E Krahmer - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2018 - jair.org
This paper surveys the current state of the art in Natural Language Generation (NLG),
defined as the task of generating text or speech from non-linguistic input. A survey of NLG is …

Five sources of bias in natural language processing

D Hovy, S Prabhumoye - Language and linguistics compass, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, there has been an increased interest in demographically grounded bias in natural
language processing (NLP) applications. Much of the recent work has focused on describing …

Gender bias in machine translation

B Savoldi, M Gaido, L Bentivogli, M Negri… - Transactions of the …, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
Abstract Machine translation (MT) technology has facilitated our daily tasks by providing
accessible shortcuts for gathering, processing, and communicating information. However, it …

NLPositionality: Characterizing design biases of datasets and models

S Santy, JT Liang, RL Bras, K Reinecke… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Design biases in NLP systems, such as performance differences for different populations,
often stem from their creator's positionality, ie, views and lived experiences shaped by …

[PDF][PDF] The social impact of natural language processing

D Hovy, SL Spruit - Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the …, 2016 - aclanthology.org
Medical sciences have long since established an ethics code for experiments, to minimize
the risk of harm to subjects. Natural language processing (NLP) used to involve mostly …

CONAN--COunter NArratives through Nichesourcing: a multilingual dataset of responses to fight online hate speech

YL Chung, E Kuzmenko, SS Tekiroglu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Although there is an unprecedented effort to provide adequate responses in terms of laws
and policies to hate content on social media platforms, dealing with hatred online is still a …

Toward gender-inclusive coreference resolution

YT Cao, H Daumé III - arxiv preprint arxiv:1910.13913, 2019 - arxiv.org
Correctly resolving textual mentions of people fundamentally entails making inferences
about those people. Such inferences raise the risk of systemic biases in coreference …

Computational sociolinguistics: A survey

D Nguyen, AS Doğruöz, CP Rosé… - Computational …, 2016 - direct.mit.edu
Abstract Language is a social phenomenon and variation is inherent to its social nature.
Recently, there has been a surge of interest within the computational linguistics (CL) …

[PDF][PDF] Personality traits on twitter—or—how to get 1,500 personality tests in a week

B Plank, D Hovy - Proceedings of the 6th workshop on …, 2015 - aclanthology.org
Psychology research suggests that certain personality traits correlate with linguistic
behavior. This correlation can be effectively modeled with statistical natural language …

Multilingual twitter corpus and baselines for evaluating demographic bias in hate speech recognition

X Huang, L **ng, F Dernoncourt, MJ Paul - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Existing research on fairness evaluation of document classification models mainly uses
synthetic monolingual data without ground truth for author demographic attributes. In this …