Biased language detection in court decisions

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2020

Authors

Pinto, Alexandra Guedes (Author) FLUP; Henrique Lopes Cardoso (Author) FEUP; Duarte, Isabel Margarida (Author) FLUP; Warrot, Catarina Vaz (Author) FLUP; Sousa-Silva, Rui (Author) FLUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - IDEAL 2020 - 21st International Conference - Proceedings, Part II

Pages: 402-410

21st International Conference IDEAL 2020. International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning

Guimarães, November 4–6, 2020

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ISI Web of Science

Scopus - 1 Citation

INSPEC

Scientific classification

CORDIS: Humanities > language sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00S-XGT

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-62365-4_38

Abstract (EN): The Portuguese Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality advocates that equality between men and women is a fundamental principle of the Portuguese Constitution. While court decisions should reflect this principle, a preliminary analysis in cases of gender violence reveals that this is not always the case. Based on the extensive literature on subjectivity, modality and bias in Linguistics and in tandem with AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques, the research proposed in this paper aims to study the linguistic formulations that convey bias in court decisions. The goal is to develop a linguistic model and, subsequently, a tool to automatically detect gender bias in this text genre. A corpus of a set of legal sentences on gender violence has been extracted from the public access database of the Portuguese Ministry of Justice (IGFEJ), which can be subject to a manual annotation process according to a typology of biased categories and structures. By exploiting the corpus in a supervised machine learning approach while following the most recent advances in NLP, we aim to deliver the aforementioned tool for biased language detection.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 9