asaillenfest/bias_in_bios

BIAS IN BIOS (De-Artega et al., 2019) is a real world dataset suited for studying gender biases in classification tasks. It consists in biographies collected through web scraping and labeled with binary gender and occupation (28 in total).

This is the version from (Ravfogel et al., 2020), which contains ∼98% of the original dataset, as the full version is no longer publicly available.

It consists of 399,423 biographies stratified by occupation, split 65% (255,710 samples)/10% (39,369 samples)/25% (98,344 samples) across training, validation, and test.

Two typical entries:

{
    g:	f
    p:	professor
    text:	Janine Langan is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. She founded and teaches the Christianity and Culture program. Janine has written and lectured extensively on art, the family, the media, and the problems of Catholic education.
    start:	69
    hard_text:	She founded and teaches the Christianity and Culture program . Janine has written and lectured extensively on art , the family , the media , and the problems of Catholic education .
    hard_text_untokenized:	She founded and teaches the Christianity and Culture program. Janine has written and lectured extensively on art, the family, the media, and the problems of Catholic education.
    text_without_gender:	_ founded and teaches the Christianity and Culture program. _ has written and lectured extensively on art, the family, the media, and the problems of Catholic education.
}

{
    g:	f
    p:	psychologist
    text:	Gillian Burrell is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Sydney. She is a past secretary of the NSW Institute of Psychoanalyic Psychotherapy. Before that she worked with Relationships Australia as a family and relationship therapist.
    start:	82
    hard_text:	She is a past secretary of the NSW Institute of Psychoanalyic Psychotherapy . Before that she worked with Relationships Australia as a family and relationship therapist .
    hard_text_untokenized:	She is a past secretary of the NSW Institute of Psychoanalyic Psychotherapy. Before that she worked with Relationships Australia as a family and relationship therapist.
    text_without_gender:	_ is a past secretary of the NSW Institute of Psychoanalyic Psychotherapy. Before that _ worked with Relationships Australia as a family and relationship therapist.
}

M. De-Arteaga, A. Romanov, H. Wallach, J. Chayes, C. Borgs, A. Chouldechova, S. Geyik, K. Kenthapadi, and A. T. Kalai. Bias in bios: A case study of semantic representation bias in a high-stakes setting. In Proceedings of the Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, FAT* ’19, page 120–128, New York, NY, USA, 2019. Association for Computing Machinery. ISBN 9781450361255. doi:10.1145/3287560.3287572

S. Ravfogel, Y. Elazar, H. Gonen, M. Twiton, and Y. Goldberg. Null it out: Guarding protected attributes by iterative nullspace projection. In D. Jurafsky, J. Chai, N. Schluter, and J. Tetreault, editors, Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 7237–7256, Online, July 2020. Association for Computational Linguistics. doi: 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.647.