  At the Workshop on Gender Bias in NLP (GeBNLP), we'd like to encourage
authors to give explicit consideration to the wider aspects of bias and its
social implications. For the 2020 edition of the workshop, we therefore
requested that all authors include an explicit bias statement in their work to
clarify how their work relates to the social context in which NLP systems are
used.
  The programme committee of the workshops included a number of reviewers with
a background in the humanities and social sciences, in addition to NLP experts
doing the bulk of the reviewing. Each paper was assigned one of those
reviewers, and they were asked to pay specific attention to the provided bias
statements in their reviews. This initiative was well received by the authors
who submitted papers to the workshop, several of whom said they received useful
suggestions and literature hints from the bias reviewers. We are therefore
planning to keep this feature of the review process in future editions of the
workshop.
