Promoting Gender Equality through Gender-biased Language Analysis in Social Media

Promoting Gender Equality through Gender-biased Language Analysis in Social Media

Gopendra Singh, Soumitra Ghosh, Asif Ekbal

Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
AI for Good. Pages 6210-6218. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2023/689

Gender bias is a pervasive issue that impacts women's and marginalized groups' ability to fully participate in social, economic, and political spheres. This study introduces a novel problem of Gender-biased Language Identification and Extraction (GLIdE) from social media interactions and develops a multi-task deep framework that detects gender-biased content and identifies connected causal phrases from the text using emotional information that is present in the input. The method uses a zero-shot strategy with emotional information and a mechanism to represent gender-stereotyped information as a knowledge graph. In this work, we also introduce the first-of-its-kind Gender-biased Analysis Corpus (GAC) of 12,432 social media posts and improve the best-performing baseline for gender-biased language identification and extraction tasks by margins of 4.88% and 5 ROS points, demonstrating this through empirical evaluation and extensive qualitative analysis. By improving the accuracy of identifying and analyzing gender-biased language, this work can contribute to achieving gender equality and promoting inclusive societies, in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and the Leave No One Behind principle (LNOB). We adhere to the principles of transparency and collaboration in line with the UN SDGs by openly sharing our code and dataset.
Keywords:
AI for Good: Natural Language Processing
AI for Good: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning