Lipstick on a Pig: Debiasing Methods Cover up Systematic Gender Biases in Word Embeddings But do not Remove Them (N19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to remove gender bias from word embeddings are insufficient, we argue . existing methods for gender-neutral modeling are ineffective, we conclude . |
| Approach: | They propose methods to reduce gender bias in word embeddings by debiasing them using text corpora. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods show that they can reduce gender bias in word embeddings . the proposed methods are insufficient and should not be trusted, the authors argue . |
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