In this chapter, we use a number of tools developed in the field of Natural Language Processing and the Moral Foundations Dictionary 2.0, a dictionary developed by Moral Foundations Theory scholars, to explore the moral contexts of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in academic works. The results reveal a number of patterns in how DEI scholars use moral language. DEI’s percentage semantic overlaps with virtue words are always higher than their semantic overlaps with vice words. Diversity’s average semantic overlaps with the individualizing foundations (Care & Fairness) and binding foundations (Loyalty, Authority, & Sanctity) are about the same but Equity and Inclusion’s average semantic overlaps with the individualizing foundations are higher than they are with the binding foundations. Diversity overlaps with Fairness, Loyalty, and Authority to a greater extent that it does with Care and Sanctity. Equity overlaps with Fairness significantly more than it does with the other foundations. Inclusion overlaps more with the individualizing foundations than the binding foundations. Sanctity is the only moral foundation that does not exhibit high percentages of semantic overlaps with Diversity, Equity, or Inclusion. DEI has no or very little semantic overlaps with the vice words category of Loyalty. The binding foundations overlap the most with Diversity. Fairness has the highest semantic overlap averaged across the three domains of DEI.

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What Does Natural Language Processing Tell Us About the Moral Foundations of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?

  • Can M. Alpaslan,
  • Ian I. Mitroff

摘要

In this chapter, we use a number of tools developed in the field of Natural Language Processing and the Moral Foundations Dictionary 2.0, a dictionary developed by Moral Foundations Theory scholars, to explore the moral contexts of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in academic works. The results reveal a number of patterns in how DEI scholars use moral language. DEI’s percentage semantic overlaps with virtue words are always higher than their semantic overlaps with vice words. Diversity’s average semantic overlaps with the individualizing foundations (Care & Fairness) and binding foundations (Loyalty, Authority, & Sanctity) are about the same but Equity and Inclusion’s average semantic overlaps with the individualizing foundations are higher than they are with the binding foundations. Diversity overlaps with Fairness, Loyalty, and Authority to a greater extent that it does with Care and Sanctity. Equity overlaps with Fairness significantly more than it does with the other foundations. Inclusion overlaps more with the individualizing foundations than the binding foundations. Sanctity is the only moral foundation that does not exhibit high percentages of semantic overlaps with Diversity, Equity, or Inclusion. DEI has no or very little semantic overlaps with the vice words category of Loyalty. The binding foundations overlap the most with Diversity. Fairness has the highest semantic overlap averaged across the three domains of DEI.