@inproceedings{sabir-padro-2023-women,
title = "Women Wearing Lipstick: Measuring the Bias Between an Object and Its Related Gender",
author = "Sabir, Ahmed and
Padr{\'o}, Llu{\'\i}s",
editor = "Bouamor, Houda and
Pino, Juan and
Bali, Kalika",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023",
month = dec,
year = "2023",
address = "Singapore",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.279",
pages = "4234--4240",
abstract = "In this paper, we investigate the impact of objects on gender bias in image captioning systems. Our results show that only gender-specific objects have a strong gender bias (e.g., women-lipstick). In addition, we propose a visual semantic-based gender score that measures the degree of bias and can be used as a plug-in for any image captioning system. Our experiments demonstrate the utility of the gender score, since we observe that our score can measure the bias relation between a caption and its related gender; therefore, our score can be used as an additional metric to the existing Object Gender Co-Occ approach.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Women Wearing Lipstick: Measuring the Bias Between an Object and Its Related Gender
%A Sabir, Ahmed
%A Padró, Lluís
%Y Bouamor, Houda
%Y Pino, Juan
%Y Bali, Kalika
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
%D 2023
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Singapore
%F sabir-padro-2023-women
%X In this paper, we investigate the impact of objects on gender bias in image captioning systems. Our results show that only gender-specific objects have a strong gender bias (e.g., women-lipstick). In addition, we propose a visual semantic-based gender score that measures the degree of bias and can be used as a plug-in for any image captioning system. Our experiments demonstrate the utility of the gender score, since we observe that our score can measure the bias relation between a caption and its related gender; therefore, our score can be used as an additional metric to the existing Object Gender Co-Occ approach.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.279
%P 4234-4240
Markdown (Informal)
[Women Wearing Lipstick: Measuring the Bias Between an Object and Its Related Gender](https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.279) (Sabir & Padró, Findings 2023)
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