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2022 · EMNLP

Gendered Mental Health Stigma in Masked Language Models

Inna Wanyin Lin, Lucille Njoo, Anjalie Field, Ashish Sharma, Katharina Reinecke, Tim Althoff, Yulia Tsvetkov

Research illustration for Gendered Mental Health Stigma in Masked Language Models

If you have ever considered using NLP for Mental Health applications, it’s vital to know what the models have inadvertently learned about people with mental health issues. In our EMNLP 2022 paper, we find that masked LMs capture societal stigma about gender in mental health.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{lin-etal-2022-gendered,
  title = {Gendered Mental Health Stigma in Masked Language Models},
  author = {Inna Wanyin Lin and Lucille Njoo and Anjalie Field and Ashish Sharma and Katharina Reinecke and Tim Althoff and Yulia Tsvetkov},
  year = {2022},
  booktitle = {EMNLP},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.139},
  eprint = {2210.15144},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv}
}