Sexismo no Brasil: Análise de um Word Embedding por meio de testes baseados em associação implícita

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This work reports experiments based on the Psychology Implicit Association Test to identify and quantify biases in a Word Embeding (WE) of the Portuguese language. For this, we use a GloVe model trained on an Internet corpus collection. The results show that several common sense and gender stereotypes can be found in WE. Within the context of professions, we note a historical sexism, since the identified bias often reflects the statistics of gender performance in occupation groups in Brazil. The results show discrimination similar to those of international studies and allow discussing the impact of the use of language models in our society
Translated title of the contributionSexism in Brazil: Analysis of a Word Embedding through Implicit Association Tests
Original languagePortuguese
Title of host publicationBRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM IN INFORMATION AND HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY (STIL)
EditorsHelena Caseli, Maria Jose Bocorny Finatto
Number of pages10
PublisherSociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC)
Publication date25.09.2023
Pages53-62
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Publication statusPublished - 25.09.2023
Event14th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology - STIL 2023 - , Brazil
Duration: 25.09.202329.09.2023
Conference number: 14
https://www.bracis.dcc.ufmg.br/collocated-events/stil

    Research areas

  • Informatics - Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Word Embedding, Implicit Association, Gender bias, Discrimination analysis

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