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A general framework for implicit and explicit debiasing of distributional word vector spaces
Lauscher, Anne
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Glavaš, Goran
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Ponzetto, Simone Paolo
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Vulić, Ivan
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URL:
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.06092.pdf
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Additional URL:
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https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.06092
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Document Type:
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Working paper
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Year of publication:
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2019
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Place of publication:
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Ithaca, NY
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Publishing house:
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Cornell University
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Publication language:
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English
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Institution:
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School of Business Informatics and Mathematics > Text Analytics for Interdisciplinary Research (Juniorprofessur) (Glavaš 2017-2021)
School of Business Informatics and Mathematics > Wirtschaftsinformatik III (Ponzetto 2016-)
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Subject:
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004 Computer science, internet
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Abstract:
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Distributional word vectors have recently been shown to encode many of the human biases, most notably gender and racial biases, and models for attenuating such biases have consequently been proposed. However, existing models and studies (1) operate on under-specified and mutually differing bias definitions, (2) are tailored for a particular bias (e.g., gender bias) and (3) have been evaluated inconsistently and
non-rigorously. In this work, we introduce a general framework for debiasing word embeddings. We operationalize the definition of a bias by discerning two types of bias specification: explicit and implicit. We then propose three debiasing
models that operate on explicit or implicit bias specifications, and that can be composed towards more robust debiasing. Finally, we devise a full-fledged evaluation framework in which we couple existing bias metrics with newly proposed ones. Experimental findings across three embedding methods suggest
that the proposed debiasing models are robust and widely applicable: they often completely remove the bias both implicitly and explicitly, without degradation of semantic information encoded in any of the input distributional spaces. Moreover, we successfully transfer debiasing models, by means of cross-lingual embedding spaces, and remove or attenuate biases in
distributional word vector spaces of languages that lack readily
available bias specifications.
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Lauscher, Anne
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Glavaš, Goran
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Ponzetto, Simone Paolo
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Vulić, Ivan
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Lauscher, Anne
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Glavaš, Goran
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Ponzetto, Simone Paolo
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Vulić, Ivan
ORCID:
Lauscher, Anne ; Glavaš, Goran ; Ponzetto, Simone Paolo  ORCID: 0000-0001-7484-2049 ; Vulić, Ivan
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