@InProceedings{larson:2017:EthNLP,
  author    = {Larson, Brian},
  title     = {Gender as a Variable in Natural-Language Processing: Ethical Considerations},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the First ACL Workshop on Ethics in Natural Language Processing},
  month     = {April},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Valencia, Spain},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {1--11},
  abstract  = {Researchers and practitioners in natural-language processing (NLP) and related
	fields should attend to ethical principles in study design, ascription of
	categories/variables to study participants, and reporting of findings or
	results. This paper discusses theoretical and ethical frameworks for using
	gender as a variable in NLP studies and proposes four guidelines for
	researchers and practitioners. The principles outlined here should guide
	practitioners, researchers, and peer reviewers, and they may be applicable to
	other social categories, such as race, applied to human beings connected to NLP
	research.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-1601}
}