Ethical Considerations in NLP Shared Tasks

Carla Parra Escartín, Wessel Reijers, Teresa Lynn, Joss Moorkens, Andy Way, Chao-Hong Liu

Abstract
Shared tasks are increasingly common in our field, and new challenges are suggested at almost every conference and workshop. However, as this has become an established way of pushing research forward, it is important to discuss how we researchers organise and participate in shared tasks, and make that information available to the community to allow further research improvements. In this paper, we present a number of ethical issues along with other areas of concern that are related to the competitive nature of shared tasks. As such issues could potentially impact on research ethics in the Natural Language Processing community, we also propose the development of a framework for the organisation of and participation in shared tasks that can help mitigate against these issues arising.
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W17-1608
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Proceedings of the First ACL Workshop on Ethics in Natural Language Processing
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April
Year:
2017
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Valencia, Spain
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Dirk Hovy, Shannon Spruit, Margaret Mitchell, Emily M. Bender, Michael Strube, Hanna Wallach
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EthNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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66–73
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https://aclanthology.org/W17-1608
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-1608
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Carla Parra Escartín, Wessel Reijers, Teresa Lynn, Joss Moorkens, Andy Way, and Chao-Hong Liu. 2017. Ethical Considerations in NLP Shared Tasks. In Proceedings of the First ACL Workshop on Ethics in Natural Language Processing, pages 66–73, Valencia, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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