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PowerTransformer: Unsupervised Controllable Revision for Biased Language Correction

Xinyao Ma, Maarten Sap, Hannah Rashkin, Yejin Choi

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Abstract

Unconscious biases continue to be prevalent in modern text and media, calling for algorithms that can assist writers with bias correction. For example, a female character in a story is often portrayed as passive and powerless ("She daydreams about being a doctor") while a man is portrayed as more proactive and powerful ("He pursues his dream of being a doctor").

Topics & Concepts

Computer scienceCharacter (mathematics)Task (project management)DebiasingScripting languageArtificial intelligenceNatural language processingVerbPreconsciousKey (lock)Unconscious mindCognitive sciencePsychologyPsychoanalysisOperating systemManagementComputer securityGeometryEconomicsMathematicsTopic ModelingNatural Language Processing TechniquesText Readability and Simplification