Yes, We Care! Results of the Ethics and Natural Language Processing Surveys
By Karën Fort, Alain Couillault. 2016
14 citations recorded by the source corpus.
We present here the context and results of two surveys (a French one and an international one) concerning Ethics and NLP, which we designed and conducted between June and September 2015. These surveys follow other actions related to raising concern for ethics in our community, including a Journée d’études, a workshop and the Ethics and Big Data Charter. The concern for ethics shows to be quite similar in both surveys, despite a few differences which we present and discuss. The surveys also lead to think there is a growing awareness in the field concerning ethical issues, which translates into a willingness to get involved in ethics-related actions, to debate about the topic and to see ethics be included in major conferences themes. We finally discuss the limits of the surveys and the means of action we consider for the future. The raw data from the two surveys are freely available online.
Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science Applications
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In Artificial Intelligence
- Alon Jacovi
- Yoav Goldberg
- Vassilis Plachouras
- Jochen L. Leidner
- Noah A. Smith
- Ana Marasovic
- Yonatan Belinkov
- Greg Durrett
In Computer Science Applications
Citations in the corpus
- Towards Faithfully Interpretable NLP Systems: How Should We Define and Evaluate Faithfulness? (2020, background): “Fueled by recent advances in deep-learning and language processing, NLP systems are increasingly being used for prediction and decision-making in many fields (Vig and Belinkov, 2019), including sensitive ones such as health, commerce and law (Fort and Couillault, 2016).”
- Ethical by Design: Ethics Best Practices for Natural Language Processing (2017, background): “5 Perhaps the most interesting empirical finding to date is a survey by Fort and Couillault (2016), who posed ethics-related questions to French and international audiences, respectively, in two polls.”