Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2768-2676

Document Type

Conference Paper

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Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

Computer Sciences, Women's and gender studies

Publication Details

International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2022)

Published version

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-16564-1_10

Abstract

Natural language models and systems have been shown to reflect gender bias existing in training data. This bias can impact on the downstream task that machine learning models, built on this training data, are to accomplish. A variety of techniques have been proposed to mitigate gender bias in training data. In this paper we compare different gender bias mitigation approaches on a classification task. We consider mitigation techniques that manipulate the training data itself, including data scrubbing, gender swapping and counterfactual data augmentation approaches. We also look at using de-biased word embeddings in the representation of the training data. We evaluate the effectiveness of the different approaches at reducing the gender bias in the training data and consider the impact on task performance. Our results show that the performance of the classification task is not affected adversely by many of the bias mitigation techniques but we show a significant variation in the effectiveness of the different gender bias mitigation techniques.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16564-1_10

Funder

Science Foundation Ireland

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

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