Fair Is Better than Sensational: Man Is to Doctor as Woman Is to Doctor

Analogies such as man is to king as woman is to X are often used to illustrate the amazing power of word embeddings. Concurrently, they have also been used to expose how strongly human biases are encoded in vector spaces trained on natural language, with examples like man is to computer programmer a...

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Main Authors: Nissim, Malvina, van Noord, Rik, van der Goot, Rob
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The MIT Press 2020-06-01
Series:Computational Linguistics
Online Access:https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/coli_a_00379