An Approach to Ensure Fairness in News Articles
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03938v1
- Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2022 14:43:56 GMT
- Title: An Approach to Ensure Fairness in News Articles
- Authors: Shaina Raza, Deepak John Reji, Dora D. Liu, Syed Raza Bashir, Usman
Naseem
- Abstract summary: This paper introduces Dbias, which is a Python package to ensure fairness in news articles.
Dbias is a trained Machine Learning pipeline that can take a text and detects if the text is biased or not.
We show in experiments that this pipeline can be effective for mitigating biases and outperforms the common neural network architectures.
- Score: 1.2349542674006961
- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Abstract: Recommender systems, information retrieval, and other information access
systems present unique challenges for examining and applying concepts of
fairness and bias mitigation in unstructured text. This paper introduces Dbias,
which is a Python package to ensure fairness in news articles. Dbias is a
trained Machine Learning (ML) pipeline that can take a text (e.g., a paragraph
or news story) and detects if the text is biased or not. Then, it detects the
biased words in the text, masks them, and recommends a set of sentences with
new words that are bias-free or at least less biased. We incorporate the
elements of data science best practices to ensure that this pipeline is
reproducible and usable. We show in experiments that this pipeline can be
effective for mitigating biases and outperforms the common neural network
architectures in ensuring fairness in the news articles.
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