Toward Gender-Inclusive Coreference Resolution

Yang Trista Cao, Hal Daumé III


Abstract
Correctly resolving textual mentions of people fundamentally entails making inferences about those people. Such inferences raise the risk of systemic biases in coreference resolution systems, including biases that can harm binary and non-binary trans and cis stakeholders. To better understand such biases, we foreground nuanced conceptualizations of gender from sociology and sociolinguistics, and develop two new datasets for interrogating bias in crowd annotations and in existing coreference resolution systems. Through these studies, conducted on English text, we confirm that without acknowledging and building systems that recognize the complexity of gender, we build systems that lead to many potential harms.
Anthology ID:
2020.acl-main.418
Volume:
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Month:
July
Year:
2020
Address:
Online
Editors:
Dan Jurafsky, Joyce Chai, Natalie Schluter, Joel Tetreault
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ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
4568–4595
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.418
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.418
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Cite (ACL):
Yang Trista Cao and Hal Daumé III. 2020. Toward Gender-Inclusive Coreference Resolution. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 4568–4595, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Toward Gender-Inclusive Coreference Resolution (Cao & Daumé III, ACL 2020)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.418.pdf
Video:
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Code
 TristaCao/into_inclusivecoref
Data
GICorefMAPGAP Coreference DatasetaGender