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title = "An Overview of Current Practices and Recommendations for Working with Stereotypes in {NLP}",
author = "Cignarella, Alessandra Teresa and
Pellegrini, Matteo",
editor = "Dudy, Shiran and
Abercrombie, Gavin and
Basile, Valerio and
Leonardelli, Elisa and
Frenda, Simona",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the the fifth edition of {NLP}erspectives",
month = may,
year = "2026",
address = "Palma, Mallorca (Spain)",
publisher = "ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.nlperspectives-1.11/",
doi = "10.63317/529kbpdujo8r",
pages = "112--123",
abstract = "This article presents a discussion on the main challenges and considerations involved in addressing stereotypes within Natural Language Processing (NLP), and proposes a set of guidelines and recommendations for their treatment in research and resource development. On the one hand, the growing interest in fairness, bias mitigation, and inclusivity has led to an increasing number of studies and datasets dealing with stereotypes; on the other hand, their conceptualization and operationalization remain highly heterogeneous across works. The aim of this article is therefore twofold: (1) to provide a concise yet comprehensive overview of existing annotation schemes highlighting their key features and offering a comparative analysis and (2) to propose a set of tentative guidelines and recommendations to foster clarity when working with stereotypes in NLP. Furthermore, as a case study, we conduct an annotation exercise of a subset of texts from the QUEEREOTYPES dataset, containing stereotypes targeting LGBTQIA+ people, using all labels proposed in prior work to assess their clarity, overlap, and practical usefulness."
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%T An Overview of Current Practices and Recommendations for Working with Stereotypes in NLP
%A Cignarella, Alessandra Teresa
%A Pellegrini, Matteo
%Y Dudy, Shiran
%Y Abercrombie, Gavin
%Y Basile, Valerio
%Y Leonardelli, Elisa
%Y Frenda, Simona
%S Proceedings of the the fifth edition of NLPerspectives
%D 2026
%8 May
%I ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
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%X This article presents a discussion on the main challenges and considerations involved in addressing stereotypes within Natural Language Processing (NLP), and proposes a set of guidelines and recommendations for their treatment in research and resource development. On the one hand, the growing interest in fairness, bias mitigation, and inclusivity has led to an increasing number of studies and datasets dealing with stereotypes; on the other hand, their conceptualization and operationalization remain highly heterogeneous across works. The aim of this article is therefore twofold: (1) to provide a concise yet comprehensive overview of existing annotation schemes highlighting their key features and offering a comparative analysis and (2) to propose a set of tentative guidelines and recommendations to foster clarity when working with stereotypes in NLP. Furthermore, as a case study, we conduct an annotation exercise of a subset of texts from the QUEEREOTYPES dataset, containing stereotypes targeting LGBTQIA+ people, using all labels proposed in prior work to assess their clarity, overlap, and practical usefulness.
%R 10.63317/529kbpdujo8r
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.nlperspectives-1.11/
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%P 112-123
Markdown (Informal)
[An Overview of Current Practices and Recommendations for Working with Stereotypes in NLP](https://aclanthology.org/2026.nlperspectives-1.11/) (Cignarella & Pellegrini, NLPerspectives 2026)
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