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PERSONAE

Personalized and Subjective approaches to Natural Language Processing

Measuring Harmful Representations in Scandinavian Language Models

Scandinavian countries are perceived as role-models when it comes to gender equality. With the advent of pre-trained language models and their widespread usage, we investigate to what extent gender-based harmful and toxic content exist in selected …

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 …

Data-Efficient Strategies for Expanding Hate Speech Detection into Under-Resourced Languages

Hate speech is a global phenomenon, but most hate speech datasets so far focus on English-language content. This hinders the development of more effective hate speech detection models in hundreds of languages spoken by billions across the world. More …

The State of Profanity Obfuscation in Natural Language Processing Scientific Publications

Work on hate speech has made the consideration of rude and harmful examples in scientific publications inevitable. This raises various problems, such as whether or not to obscure profanities. While science must accurately disclose what it does, the …

Is It Worth the (Environmental) Cost? Limited Evidence for the Benefits of Diachronic Continuous Training

Language is constantly changing and evolving, leaving language models to quickly become outdated, both factually and linguistically. Recent research proposes we continuously update our models using new data. Continuous training allows us to teach …

ferret: a Framework for Benchmarking Explainers on Transformers

Many interpretability tools allow practitioners and researchers to explain Natural Language Processing systems. However, each tool requires different configurations and provides explanations in different forms, hindering the possibility of assessing …