Abstract
The argument made in this paper is that to act ethically in machine learning and NLP requires focusing on goals. NLP projects are often classificatory systems that deal with human subjects, which means that goals from people affected by the systems should be included. The paper takes as its core example a model that detects criminality, showing the problems of training data, categories, and outcomes. The paper is oriented to the kinds of critiques on power and the reproduction of inequality that are found in social theory, but it also includes concrete suggestions on how to put goal-oriented design into practice.- Anthology ID:
- W17-1611
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the First ACL Workshop on Ethics in Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- April
- Year:
- 2017
- Address:
- Valencia, Spain
- Editors:
- Dirk Hovy, Shannon Spruit, Margaret Mitchell, Emily M. Bender, Michael Strube, Hanna Wallach
- Venue:
- EthNLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 88–93
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W17-1611
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W17-1611
- Cite (ACL):
- Tyler Schnoebelen. 2017. Goal-Oriented Design for Ethical Machine Learning and NLP. In Proceedings of the First ACL Workshop on Ethics in Natural Language Processing, pages 88–93, Valencia, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Goal-Oriented Design for Ethical Machine Learning and NLP (Schnoebelen, EthNLP 2017)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-2/W17-1611.pdf