Bias

Countering Hateful and Offensive Speech Online - Open Challenges

In today’s digital age, hate speech and offensive speech online pose a significant challenge to maintaining respectful and inclusive online environments. This tutorial aims to provide attendees with a comprehensive understanding of the field by …

Metrics for What, Metrics for Whom: Assessing Actionability of Bias Evaluation Metrics in NLP

This paper introduces the concept of actionability in the context of bias measures in natural language processing (NLP). We define actionability as the degree to which a measure’s results enable informed action and propose a set of desiderata for …

Overview of the Shared Task on Machine Translation Gender Bias Evaluation with Multilingual Holistic Bias

We describe the details of the Shared Task of the 5th ACL Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP 2024). The task uses dataset to investigate the quality of Machine Translation systems on a particular case of gender robustness. …

Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP)

This volume contains the proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing held in conjunction with the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024).

FairBelief - Assessing Harmful Beliefs in Language Models

Language Models (LMs) have been shown to inherit undesired biases that might hurt minorities and underrepresented groups if such systems were integrated into real-world applications without careful fairness auditing.This paper proposes FairBelief, an …

Easily Accessible Text-to-Image Generation Amplifies Demographic Stereotypes at Large Scale

Machine learning models are now able to convert user-written text descriptions into naturalistic images. These models are available to anyone online and are being used to generate millions of images a day. We investigate these models and find that …

Easily Accessible Text-to-Image Generation Amplifies Demographic Stereotypes at Large Scale

Machine learning models are now able to convert user-written text descriptions into naturalistic images. These models are available to anyone online and are being used to generate millions of images a day. We investigate these models and find that …