Su Lin Blodgett
Researcher on the social implications and evaluation of NLP; formerly at Microsoft Research
- Independent visiting researcher, Mila1
Su Lin Blodgett studies the social and ethical implications of natural language processing technologies, including principled evaluation and measurement of generative AI capabilities, behaviours, and impacts, how people perceive and use generative AI, and support for practitioners' ethical work. Blodgett is an independent visiting researcher at Mila and was previously a principal researcher in the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI (FATE) group at Microsoft Research, where Blodgett was also a postdoctoral researcher. Blodgett is first author of Language (Technology) is Power: A Critical Survey of "Bias" in NLP, written with Solon Barocas, Hal Daumé III, and Hanna Wallach, and co-organizes a workshop series bridging human-computer interaction and NLP.12
Work
Language (Technology) is Power - A Critical Survey of "Bias" in NLP (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
First author of the 2020 survey of papers analyzing "bias" in NLP systems, which offers three recommendations for future work in the area.2
Earlier roles
- Principal researcher, Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI (FATE) group (previously postdoctoral researcher), Microsoft Research1
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