Issues

Five sources of bias in natural language processing

Recently, there has been an increased interest in demographically grounded bias in natural language processing (NLP) applications. Much of the recent work has focused on describing bias and providing an overview of bias in a larger context. Here, we …

On the Gap between Adoption and Understanding in NLP

There are some issues with current research trends in NLP that can hamper the free development of scientific research. We identify five of particular concern: 1) the early adoption of methods without sufficient understanding or analysis; 2) the …