Gender as a Variable in Natural-Language Processing: Ethical Considerations Conference Paper

abstract

• Researchers and practitioners in naturallanguage processing (NLP) and related fields should attend to ethical principles in study design, ascription of categories/variables to study participants, and reporting of findings or results. This paper discusses theoretical and ethical frameworks for using gender as a variable in NLP studies and proposes four guidelines for researchers and practitioners. The principles outlined here should guide practitioners, researchers, and peer reviewers, and they may be applicable to other social categories, such as race, applied to human beings connected to NLP research.

authors

• Larson, Brian

author list (cited authors)

• Larson, B. N.

complete list of authors

• Larson, Brian N

publication date

• April 2017

publisher

• Association for Computational Linguistics  Publisher

keywords

• Ethics
• Gender
• Law
• Law And Philosophy
• Legal Ethics And Professional Responsibility
• Natural Language Processing

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 978-1-945626-47-0

URI

• https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/832

start page

• 30

end page

• 40