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20192021
most citedContextualizing Hate Speech Classifiers with Post-hoc Explanation

20 citations · 34 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CL2021★ 4 cited

Hate Speech Classifiers Learn Human-Like Social Stereotypes

Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Mohammad Atari, Brendan Kennedy +1

Social stereotypes negatively impact individuals' judgements about different groups and may have a critical role in how people understand language directed toward minority social g…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Improving Counterfactual Generation for Fair Hate Speech Detection

Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Ali Omrani, Brendan Kennedy +3

Bias mitigation approaches reduce models' dependence on sensitive features of data, such as social group tokens (SGTs), resulting in equal predictions across the sensitive features…

cs.CL2020★ 3 cited

Fair Hate Speech Detection through Evaluation of Social Group Counterfactuals

Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Ali Omrani, Brendan Kennedy +3

Approaches for mitigating bias in supervised models are designed to reduce models' dependence on specific sensitive features of the input data, e.g., mentioned social groups. Howev…

cs.CL2020★ 4 cited

On Transferability of Bias Mitigation Effects in Language Model Fine-Tuning

Xisen Jin, Francesco Barbieri, Brendan Kennedy +3

Fine-tuned language models have been shown to exhibit biases against protected groups in a host of modeling tasks such as text classification and coreference resolution. Previous w…

cs.CL2020★ 20 cited

Contextualizing Hate Speech Classifiers with Post-hoc Explanation

Brendan Kennedy, Xisen Jin, Aida Mostafazadeh Davani +2

Hate speech classifiers trained on imbalanced datasets struggle to determine if group identifiers like "gay" or "black" are used in offensive or prejudiced ways. Such biases manife…

cs.CL2019★ 2 cited

Reporting the Unreported: Event Extraction for Analyzing the Local Representation of Hate Crimes

Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Leigh Yeh, Mohammad Atari +8

Official reports of hate crimes in the US are under-reported relative to the actual number of such incidents. Further, despite statistical approximations, there are no official rep…