Navigating Ethical Challenges in NLP: Hands-on strategies for students and researchers
Luciana Benotti, Fanny Ducel, Karën Fort, Guido Ivetta, Zhijing Jin, Min-Yen Kan, Seunghun J. Lee, Minzhi Li, Margot Mieskes, Adriana Pagano
Abstract
With NLP research being rapidly productionized into real-world applications, it is important to be aware of and think through the consequences of our work. Such ethical considerations are important in both authoring and reviewing (e.g. privacy, consent, fairness, among others). This tutorial will equip participants with basic guidelines for thinking deeply about ethical issues and review common considerations that recur in NLP research. The methodology is interactive and participatory, including discussion of case studies and group work. Participants will gain practical experience on when to flag a paper for ethics review and how to write an ethical consideration section to be shared with the broader community. Most importantly, the participants will be co-creating the tutorial outcomes and extending tutorial materials to share as public outcomes.- Anthology ID:
- 2025.acl-tutorials.5
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 5: Tutorial Abstracts)
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2025
- Address:
- Vienna, Austria
- Editors:
- Yuki Arase, David Jurgens, Fei Xia
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 7–8
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-acl-25/2025.acl-tutorials.5/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Luciana Benotti, Fanny Ducel, Karën Fort, Guido Ivetta, Zhijing Jin, Min-Yen Kan, Seunghun J. Lee, Minzhi Li, Margot Mieskes, and Adriana Pagano. 2025. Navigating Ethical Challenges in NLP: Hands-on strategies for students and researchers. In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 5: Tutorial Abstracts), pages 7–8, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Navigating Ethical Challenges in NLP: Hands-on strategies for students and researchers (Benotti et al., ACL 2025)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-acl-25/2025.acl-tutorials.5.pdf