Language has a profound impact on our thoughts, perceptions, and conceptions of gender roles. Gender-inclusive language is, therefore, a key tool to promote social inclusion and contribute to achieving gender equality. Consequently, detecting and mitigating gender bias in texts is instrumental in halting its propagation and societal implications. However, there is a lack of gender bias datasets and lexicons for automating the detection of gender bias using supervised and unsupervised machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) techniques. Therefore, the main contribution of this work is to publicly provide labeled datasets and exhaustive lexicons by collecting, annotating, and augmenting relevant sentences to facilitate the detection of gender bias in English text. Towards this end, we present an updated version of our previously proposed taxonomy by re-formalizing its structure, adding a new bias type, and mapping each bias subtype to an appropriate detection methodology. The released datasets and lexicons span multiple bias subtypes including: Generic He, Generic She, Explicit Marking of Sex, and Gendered Neologisms. We leveraged the use of word embedding models to further augment the collected lexicons. The underlying motivation of our work is to enable the technical community to combat gender bias in text and halt its propagation using ML and NLP techniques.

该研究的主要贡献是，通过收集、注释和增强相关句子以促进检测英文文本中的性别偏见，公开提供已标记的数据集和详尽的词汇表，其中所包含的偏见子类型包括：通用他，通用她，明确标记性别和性别新词。同时，利用词嵌入模型进一步增强了所收集的词汇表。

文本中的性别偏见：标记数据集和词库