WF-TAWWJA
Common Biases of Vector Embeddings
Researchers from Boston University and Microsoft Research, New England demonstrated gender bias in the most common techniques used to embed words for natural language processing (NLP).
- Date it happened
- 2016-07-21
- Organisation involved
- Microsoft Research, Boston University
- Product, system or model
- word2vec word embeddings trained on Google News articles
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