Corpus ID: 1704893

Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings

@inproceedings{Bolukbasi2016ManIT,
  title={Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings},
  author={Tolga Bolukbasi and Kai-Wei Chang and James Y. Zou and Venkatesh Saligrama and A. Kalai},
  booktitle={NIPS},
  year={2016}
}

• Tolga Bolukbasi, Kai-Wei Chang, +2 authors A. Kalai
• Published in NIPS 2016
• Computer Science, Mathematics

The blind application of machine learning runs the risk of amplifying biases present in data. [...] Key Method Geometrically, gender bias is first shown to be captured by a direction in the word embedding. Second, gender neutral words are shown to be linearly separable from gender definition words in the word embedding.Expand

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