Safe Society

Machine learning-based algorithms help us make all kinds of decisions by extracting information from large amounts of text. Such algorithms make use of language models. These language models, however,  are sometimes implicitly biased. The recommendations that the algorithms make can therefore also be biased. We investigate what the source is of these biases, how they are represented in language models, and how they can be removed to ensure ethically fair, and legally just, automatic decision making. We also develop methods to automatically detect  biases in text and speech itself (rather than  in language models).