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title = "{D}eb{IE}: A Platform for Implicit and Explicit Debiasing of Word Embedding Spaces",
author = "Friedrich, Niklas and
Lauscher, Anne and
Ponzetto, Simone Paolo and
Glava{\v{s}}, Goran",
editor = "Gkatzia, Dimitra and
Seddah, Djam{\'e}",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations",
month = apr,
year = "2021",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-demos.11",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-demos.11",
pages = "91--98",
abstract = "Recent research efforts in NLP have demonstrated that distributional word vector spaces often encode stereotypical human biases, such as racism and sexism. With word representations ubiquitously used in NLP models and pipelines, this raises ethical issues and jeopardizes the fairness of language technologies. While there exists a large body of work on bias measures and debiasing methods, to date, there is no platform that would unify these research efforts and make bias measuring and debiasing of representation spaces widely accessible. In this work, we present DebIE, the first integrated platform for (1) measuring and (2) mitigating bias in word embeddings. Given an (i) embedding space (users can choose between the predefined spaces or upload their own) and (ii) a bias specification (users can choose between existing bias specifications or create their own), DebIE can (1) compute several measures of implicit and explicit bias and modify the embedding space by executing two (mutually composable) debiasing models. DebIE{'}s functionality can be accessed through four different interfaces: (a) a web application, (b) a desktop application, (c) a REST-ful API, and (d) as a command-line application. DebIE is available at: debie.informatik.uni-mannheim.de.",
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%A Friedrich, Niklas
%A Lauscher, Anne
%A Ponzetto, Simone Paolo
%A Glavaš, Goran
%Y Gkatzia, Dimitra
%Y Seddah, Djamé
%S Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
%D 2021
%8 April
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Online
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%P 91-98
Markdown (Informal)
[DebIE: A Platform for Implicit and Explicit Debiasing of Word Embedding Spaces](https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-demos.11) (Friedrich et al., EACL 2021)
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