@inproceedings{koolen-van-cranenburgh-2017-stereotypes,
    title = "These are not the Stereotypes You are Looking For: Bias and Fairness in Authorial Gender Attribution",
    author = "Koolen, Corina  and
      van Cranenburgh, Andreas",
    editor = "Hovy, Dirk  and
      Spruit, Shannon  and
      Mitchell, Margaret  and
      Bender, Emily M.  and
      Strube, Michael  and
      Wallach, Hanna",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the First {ACL} Workshop on Ethics in Natural Language Processing",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/W17-1602/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1602",
    pages = "12--22",
    abstract = "Stylometric and text categorization results show that author gender can be discerned in texts with relatively high accuracy. However, it is difficult to explain what gives rise to these results and there are many possible confounding factors, such as the domain, genre, and target audience of a text. More fundamentally, such classification efforts risk invoking stereotyping and essentialism. We explore this issue in two datasets of Dutch literary novels, using commonly used descriptive (LIWC, topic modeling) and predictive (machine learning) methods. Our results show the importance of controlling for variables in the corpus and we argue for taking care not to overgeneralize from the results."
}