{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/investigating-societal-biases-in-a-poetry","title":"Investigating Societal Biases in a Poetry Composition System","arxiv_id":"2011.02686","date":"2020-11-05","proceeding":"GeBNLP (COLING) 2020 12","authors":["Emily Sheng","David Uthus"],"abstract":"There is a growing collection of work analyzing and mitigating societal biases in language understanding, generation, and retrieval tasks, though examining biases in creative tasks remains underexplored. Creative language applications are meant for direct interaction with users, so it is important to quantify and mitigate societal biases in these applications. We introduce a novel study on a pipeline to mitigate societal biases when retrieving next verse suggestions in a poetry composition system. Our results suggest that data augmentation through sentiment style transfer has potential for mitigating societal biases.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02686v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.02686v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"investigating-societal-biases-in-a-poetry","repo_url":"https://github.com/google-research-datasets/poem-sentiment","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":{"status":"unanswered"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"data-augmentation","task_name":"Data Augmentation"},{"task_slug":"retrieval","task_name":"Retrieval"},{"task_slug":"style-transfer","task_name":"Style Transfer"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"verse","method_name":"VERSE"}],"datasets_introduced":[{"slug":"gutenberg-poem-dataset","name":"Gutenberg Poem Dataset","full_name":""}],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2011.02686","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}