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most citedRevealing Persona Biases in Dialogue Systems

20 citations · 71 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

A Keyword Based Approach to Understanding the Overpenalization of Marginalized Groups by English Marginal Abuse Models on Twitter

Kyra Yee, Alice Schoenauer Sebag, Olivia Redfield +3

Harmful content detection models tend to have higher false positive rates for content from marginalized groups. In the context of marginal abuse modeling on Twitter, such dispropor…

cs.CL2021★ 9 cited

On Measures of Biases and Harms in NLP

Sunipa Dev, Emily Sheng, Jieyu Zhao +8

Recent studies show that Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies propagate societal biases about demographic groups associated with attributes such as gender, race, and nati…

cs.CL2021★ 12 cited

Societal Biases in Language Generation: Progress and Challenges

Emily Sheng, Kai-Wei Chang, Premkumar Natarajan +1

Technology for language generation has advanced rapidly, spurred by advancements in pre-training large models on massive amounts of data and the need for intelligent agents to comm…

cs.CL2021★ 20 cited

Revealing Persona Biases in Dialogue Systems

Emily Sheng, Josh Arnold, Zhou Yu +2

Dialogue systems in the form of chatbots and personal assistants are being increasingly integrated into people's lives. Modern dialogue systems may consider adopting anthropomorphi…

cs.CL2020★ 3 cited

Investigating Societal Biases in a Poetry Composition System

Emily Sheng, David Uthus

There is a growing collection of work analyzing and mitigating societal biases in language understanding, generation, and retrieval tasks, though examining biases in creative tasks…

cs.CL2020★ 2 cited

"Nice Try, Kiddo": Investigating Ad Hominems in Dialogue Responses

Emily Sheng, Kai-Wei Chang, Premkumar Natarajan +1

Ad hominem attacks are those that target some feature of a person's character instead of the position the person is maintaining. These attacks are harmful because they propagate im…

cs.CL2020★ 11 cited

Towards Controllable Biases in Language Generation

Emily Sheng, Kai-Wei Chang, Premkumar Natarajan +1

We present a general approach towards controllable societal biases in natural language generation (NLG). Building upon the idea of adversarial triggers, we develop a method to indu…

cs.CL2019★ 11 cited

The Woman Worked as a Babysitter: On Biases in Language Generation

Emily Sheng, Kai-Wei Chang, Premkumar Natarajan +1

We present a systematic study of biases in natural language generation (NLG) by analyzing text generated from prompts that contain mentions of different demographic groups. In this…

cs.CL2018

A Byte-sized Approach to Named Entity Recognition

Emily Sheng, Prem Natarajan

In biomedical literature, it is common for entity boundaries to not align with word boundaries. Therefore, effective identification of entity spans requires approaches capable of c…

cs.CL2017★ 1 cited

An Investigation into the Pedagogical Features of Documents

Emily Sheng, Prem Natarajan, Jonathan Gordon +1

Characterizing the content of a technical document in terms of its learning utility can be useful for applications related to education, such as generating reading lists from large…