Quantifying gender bias towards politicians in cross-lingual language models.

Recent research has demonstrated that large pre-trained language models reflect societal biases expressed in natural language. The present paper introduces a simple method for probing language models to conduct a multilingual study of gender bias towards politicians. We quantify the usage of adjecti...

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Main Authors: Karolina Stańczak, Sagnik Ray Choudhury, Tiago Pimentel, Ryan Cotterell, Isabelle Augenstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0277640&type=printable