--- title: "Tony Sun — author profile and papers · Bias, fairness & safety" description: "Tony Sun, Columbia University Irving Medical Center: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2019–2021), h-index 21 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tony-sun/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tony-sun/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Tony Sun # Tony Sun Tony Sun has 2 papers in our library, in 2019–2021, most of them on [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [William Yang Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-yang-wang/), [Diba Mirza](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diba-mirza/), [Elizabeth Belding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elizabeth-belding/). 2 papers in our library · 2019–2021 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5082205771) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6482-1188) · [**h-index 21**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5082205771) · [59 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5082205771) · [2,537 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5082205771&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tony-sun/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 285 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tony-sun/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2567](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/26/#star-2567) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Tony+Sun) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Tony+Sun) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Tony+Sun) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Tony+Sun) ## Affiliations [🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 2020–2025 · 7 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) · [🏥**Columbia University Irving Medical Center** New York · United States 2024–2025 · 2 papers*current*](https://ror.org/01esghr10) · [🎓**University of California, Los Angeles** Los Angeles · United States 2005–2020 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-los-angeles/) · [🎓**Rockefeller University** New York · United States 2017–2025 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/0420db125) · [🎓**Washington University in St. Louis** St Louis · United States 2013–2017 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/washington-university-in-st-louis/) · [🎓**University of California, Santa Barbara** Santa Barbara · United States 2019–2021 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-santa-barbara/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 6 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Social Sciences · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Gender Studies · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/gender-studies/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2021** 1 paper Tony Sun's papers of 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2021-they-them-theirs-rewriting-gender/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper Tony Sun's papers of 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2019-mitigating-gender-bias-natural-language/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Mitigating Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing: Literature Review](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2019-mitigating-gender-bias-natural-language/)** *(2019 · 718 citations)* This survey examines how NLP systems absorb gender bias from their training text, embeddings and algorithms, and how they sometimes magnify it. 2. **[They, Them, Theirs: Rewriting with Gender-Neutral English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2021-they-them-theirs-rewriting-gender/)** *(2021 · 71 citations)* The paper presents rewriting as a way to support gender-inclusive language. It converts English sentences that refer to one person with gendered pronouns or gendered nouns into versions that use the singular they. Simple find-and-replace is not enough for two reasons. Some pronouns map to more than one form (her can… ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [William Yang Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-yang-wang/) ×2 - [Diba Mirza](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diba-mirza/) - [Elizabeth Belding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elizabeth-belding/) - [Jieyu Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jieyu-zhao/) - [Kai-Wei Chang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-wei-chang/) - [Kellie Webster](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kellie-webster/) - [Mai ElSherief](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mai-elsherief/) - [Melvin Johnson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/melvin-johnson/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2019/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 285 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [37 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tony-sun/cited-by/). 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