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most citedContextualizing Hate Speech Classifiers with Post-hoc Explanation

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cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

Social-Group-Agnostic Word Embedding Debiasing via the Stereotype Content Model

Ali Omrani, Brendan Kennedy, Mohammad Atari +1

Existing word embedding debiasing methods require social-group-specific word pairs (e.g., "man"-"woman") for each social attribute (e.g., gender), which cannot be used to mitigate…

cs.CL2022

The Moral Foundations Reddit Corpus

Jackson Trager, Alireza S. Ziabari, Elnaz Rahmati +15

Moral framing and sentiment can affect a variety of online and offline behaviors, including donation, environmental action, political engagement, and protest. Various computational…

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★ 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…