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by elihu 2832 days ago
This is an interesting result:

> Note that the accuracy of sentiment prediction went up when we switched to ConceptNet Numberbatch.

> Some people expect that fighting algorithmic racism is going to come with some sort of trade-off. There’s no trade-off here. You can have data that’s better and less racist. You can have data that’s better because it’s less racist. There was never anything “accurate” about the overt racism that word2vec and GloVe learned.

I wonder if this could be extended to individual names that have strong connotations with people because of the fame of some particular person, like "Barack", "Hillary", "Donald", "Vladimir", or "Adolf", or if removing that sort of bias is just too much to expect from a sentiment analysis algorithm.