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Cultural Re-contextualization of Fairness Research in Language Technologies in India
Shaily Bhatt, Sunipa Dev, Partha Talukdar +2
Recent research has revealed undesirable biases in NLP data and models. However, these efforts largely focus on social disparities in the West, and are not directly portable to oth…
LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications
Romal Thoppilan, Daniel De Freitas, Jamie Hall +57
We present LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications. LaMDA is a family of Transformer-based neural language models specialized for dialog, which have up to 137B parameters an…
Dealing with Disagreements: Looking Beyond the Majority Vote in Subjective Annotations
Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Mark Díaz, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran
Majority voting and averaging are common approaches employed to resolve annotator disagreements and derive single ground truth labels from multiple annotations. However, annotators…
On Releasing Annotator-Level Labels and Information in Datasets
Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Mark Díaz
A common practice in building NLP datasets, especially using crowd-sourced annotations, involves obtaining multiple annotator judgements on the same data instances, which are then…
How Metaphors Impact Political Discourse: A Large-Scale Topic-Agnostic Study Using Neural Metaphor Detection
Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Marek Rei, Ekaterina Shutova
Metaphors are widely used in political rhetoric as an effective framing device. While the efficacy of specific metaphors such as the war metaphor in political discourse has been do…
Detecting Cross-Geographic Biases in Toxicity Modeling on Social Media
Sayan Ghosh, Dylan Baker, David Jurgens +1
Online social media platforms increasingly rely on Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to detect abusive content at scale in order to mitigate the harms it causes to their…