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representational harm: a standalone construct

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harm done when a system represents some social groups in a less favorable or demeaning way, as distinct from unfairly allocating resources.

In natural language processing, representational harm refers to harm done when a system represents some social groups in a less favorable or demeaning way, as distinct from unfairly allocating resources. This meaning comes from Blodgett (2020) in Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.[1]

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References

  1. Blodgett, S. L., Barocas, S., Daumé Iii, H., & Wallach, H. (2020). Language (Technology) is Power: A Critical Survey of “Bias” in NLP. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.485

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