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Gender Bias in Coreference Resolution

25 Apr 2018NAACL 2018 6arXiv:1804.09301archive 2025-07-28

Rachel Rudinger, Jason Naradowsky, Brian Leonard, Benjamin Van Durme

We present an empirical study of gender bias in coreference resolution systems. We first introduce a novel, Winograd schema-style set of minimal pair sentences that differ only by pronoun gender. With these "Winogender schemas," we evaluate and confirm systematic gender bias in three publicly-available coreference resolution systems, and correlate this bias with real-world and textual gender statistics.

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