Navigating Ethical Challenges in NLP: Hands-on Strategies for Students and Researchers

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Tutorial presented at ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria, together with Luciana Benotti, Fanny Ducel, Karën Fort, Zhijing Jin, Min-Yen Kan, Seung-Hun J. Lee, Minzhi Li, Margot Mieskes, and Adriana Pagano.

The tutorial provides concrete methodology and interactive exercises for identifying, characterizing, and mitigating ethical harms in NLP research, from data collection and annotation to model auditing and deployment.