Say the Right Thing Right: Ethics Issues in Natural Language Generation Systems

Charese Smiley, Frank Schilder, Vassilis Plachouras, Jochen L. Leidner


Abstract
We discuss the ethical implications of Natural Language Generation systems. We use one particular system as a case study to identify and classify issues, and we provide an ethics checklist, in the hope that future system designers may benefit from conducting their own ethics reviews based on our checklist.
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W17-1613
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
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EthNLP
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
103–108
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W17-1613
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-1613
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Charese Smiley, Frank Schilder, Vassilis Plachouras, and Jochen L. Leidner. 2017. Say the Right Thing Right: Ethics Issues in Natural Language Generation Systems. In Proceedings of the First ACL Workshop on Ethics in Natural Language Processing, pages 103–108, Valencia, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Say the Right Thing Right: Ethics Issues in Natural Language Generation Systems (Smiley et al., EthNLP 2017)
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