A survey on gender bias in natural language processing

K Stanczak, I Augenstein - arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.14168, 2021 - arxiv.org
Language can be used as a means of reproducing and enforcing harmful stereotypes and
biases and has been analysed as such in numerous research. In this paper, we present a …

A survey of race, racism, and anti-racism in NLP

A Field, SL Blodgett, Z Waseem, Y Tsvetkov - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Despite inextricable ties between race and language, little work has considered race in NLP
research and development. In this work, we survey 79 papers from the ACL anthology that …

Computational media intelligence: Human-centered machine analysis of media

K Somandepalli, T Guha, VR Martinez… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Media is created by humans for humans to tell stories. There exists a natural and imminent
need for creating human-centered media analytics to illuminate the stories being told and to …

New feminist studies in audiovisual industries| gender representation in subscription video-on-demand Spanish TV series

MM Ramos, B Gonzalez-De-Garay - International Journal of Communication, 2021 - ijoc.org
In recent years, the increasing popularity of video-on-demand (VOD) platforms has changed
Spanish audiovisual consumption. The main objectives of this article are to analyze the …

Detecting gender stereotypes: Lexicon vs. supervised learning methods

J Cryan, S Tang, X Zhang, M Metzger… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Biases in language influence how we interact with each other and society at large.
Language affirming gender stereotypes is often observed in various contexts today, from …

PowerTransformer: Unsupervised controllable revision for biased language correction

X Ma, M Sap, H Rashkin, Y Choi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.13816, 2020 - arxiv.org
Unconscious biases continue to be prevalent in modern text and media, calling for
algorithms that can assist writers with bias correction. For example, a female character in a …

Gender representation in Spanish prime-time TV series

B González-de-Garay, M Marcos-Ramos… - Feminist Media …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The present research analyzes the current state of the representation of gender in prime-
time Spanish television series broadcast on the main generalist channels. For this purpose …

Half a century of stereotyping associations between gender and intellectual ability in films

RH Gálvez, V Tiffenberg, E Altszyler - Sex Roles, 2019 - Springer
A particularly longstanding, prevalent, and well-documented stereotype is the belief that
men possess higher-level cognitive abilities than women do. This brilliance= male …

Using data science to understand the film industry's gender gap

D Kagan, T Chesney, M Fire - Palgrave Communications, 2020 - nature.com
Data science can offer answers to a wide range of social science questions. Here we turn
attention to the portrayal of women in movies, an industry that has a significant influence on …

Violence rating prediction from movie scripts

VR Martinez, K Somandepalli, K Singla… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - ojs.aaai.org
Violent content in movies can influence viewers' perception of the society. For example,
frequent depictions of certain demographics as perpetrators or victims of abuse can shape …