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关于性别的许多工作:关于适当的性别意识信息获取的目前做法和未来建议

Much Ado About Gender: Current Practices and Future Recommendations for Appropriate Gender-Aware Information Access

Christine Pinney, Amifa Raj, Alex Hanna, Michael D. Ekstrand

摘要:

信息访问研究(和开发)有时会使用性别,无论是报告用户研究中参与者的人口统计数据,作为个性化结果或建议的输入,还是使系统性别公平,除其他目的外。然而,这项工作对性别做出了各种各样的假设,这些假设不一定与当前对性别是什么、应该如何编码以及应该如何在道德上使用性别变量的理解保持一致。在这项工作中,我们提出了一个系统的审查文件的信息检索和推荐系统,提到性别,以文件性别目前正在使用在这一领域。我们发现,大多数提到性别的论文都没有使用明确的性别变量,但大多数论文都专注于将模型性能的结果置于情境中,基于用户性别的假设对系统进行个性化,或者审计模型的行为是否公平或其他与隐私相关的问题。此外,我们回顾的大多数论文都依赖于性别的二元概念,即使他们承认性别不能分为两类。我们将这些发现与性别理论的学术研究以及最近在人机交互和自然语言处理中的性别研究联系起来。最后,我们提出的建议,在建设和研究信息访问系统的道德和良好的接地使用性别。

英文摘要:

Information access research (and development) sometimes makes use of gender, whether to report on the demographics of participants in a user study, as inputs to personalized results or recommendations, or to make systems gender-fair, amongst other purposes. This work makes a variety of assumptions about gender, however, that are not necessarily aligned with current understandings of what gender is, how it should be encoded, and how a gender variable should be ethically used. In this work, we present a systematic review of papers on information retrieval and recommender systems that mention gender in order to document how gender is currently being used in this field. We find that most papers mentioning gender do not use an explicit gender variable, but most of those that do either focus on contextualizing results of model performance, personalizing a system based on assumptions of user gender, or auditing a model's behavior for fairness or other privacy-related issues. Moreover, most of the papers we review rely on a binary notion of gender, even if they acknowledge that gender cannot be split into two categories. We connect these findings with scholarship on gender theory and recent work on gender in human-computer interaction and natural language processing. We conclude by making recommendations for ethical and well-grounded use of gender in building and researching information access systems.

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