Automatic annotation of protected attributes to support fairness optimization

Juan Pablo Consuegra-Ayala, Yoan Gutiérrez, Yudivián Almeida-Cruz, Manuel Palomar

Abstract: Highlights•A framework to automatically annotate protected attributes in datasets.•Techniques to annotate gender in textual collections with fairness considerations.•Optimization search approach for tuning the framework to custom domains.•Small dataset of movie reviews annotated with gender and sentiment.•Effective use of annotations as a proxy to estimate fairness in datasets.