Mitigating Gender Bias for Neural Dialogue Generation with Adversarial Learning
Haochen Liu, Wentao Wang, Yiqi Wang, Hui Liu, Zitao Liu, Jiliang Tang
Abstract
Dialogue systems play an increasingly important role in various aspects of our daily life. It is evident from recent research that dialogue systems trained on human conversation data are biased. In particular, they can produce responses that reflect people’s gender prejudice. Many debiasing methods have been developed for various NLP tasks, such as word embedding. However, they are not directly applicable to dialogue systems because they are likely to force dialogue models to generate similar responses for different genders. This greatly degrades the diversity of the generated responses and immensely hurts the performance of the dialogue models. In this paper, we propose a novel adversarial learning framework Debiased-Chat to train dialogue models free from gender bias while keeping their performance. Extensive experiments on two real-world conversation datasets show that our framework significantly reduces gender bias in dialogue models while maintaining the response quality.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.emnlp-main.64
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Online
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 893–903
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.64
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.64
- Cite (ACL):
- Haochen Liu, Wentao Wang, Yiqi Wang, Hui Liu, Zitao Liu, and Jiliang Tang. 2020. Mitigating Gender Bias for Neural Dialogue Generation with Adversarial Learning. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 893–903, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Mitigating Gender Bias for Neural Dialogue Generation with Adversarial Learning (Liu et al., EMNLP 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-script-update/2020.emnlp-main.64.pdf
- Code
- zgahhblhc/Debiased-Chat