“Women do not have heart attacks!” Gender Biases in Automatically Generated Clinical Cases in French (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Healthcare professionals are increasingly including Language Models (LMs) in clinical practice. |
| Approach: | They propose to use LMs to generate clinical cases in french and an automatic linguistic gender detection tool to measure gender biases. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model over-generates cases describing male patients, creating synthetic corpora that are not consistent with documented prevalence for these disorders. |
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