Counterfactually Augmented Data and Unintended Bias: The Case of Sexism and Hate Speech Detection

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Counterfactually Augmented Data (CAD) aims to improve out-of-domain generalizability, an indicator of model robustness. The improvement is credited to promoting core features of the construct over spurious artifacts that happen to correlate with it. Yet, over-relying on core features may lead to unintended model bias. Especially, construct-driven CAD-perturbations of core features-may induce models to ignore the context in which core features are used. Here, we test models for sexism and hate speech detection on challenging data: non-hateful and nonsexist usage of identity and gendered terms. On these hard cases, models trained on CAD, especially construct-driven CAD, show higher false positive rates than models trained on the original, unperturbed data. Using a diverse set of CAD-construct-driven and construct-agnostic-reduces such unintended bias.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelProceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
ForlagAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Publikationsdato2022
Sider4716-4726
ISBN (Elektronisk)9781955917711
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2022
Begivenhed2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL 2022 - Seattle, USA
Varighed: 10 jul. 202215 jul. 2022

Konference

Konference2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL 2022
LandUSA
BySeattle
Periode10/07/202215/07/2022
SponsorAmazon, Bloomberg, et al., Google Research, LIVE PERSON, Meta

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Funding Information:
We thank the members of the Computational Social Science department at GESIS, the CopeNLU group, and the anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback. Isabelle Augenstein’s research is partially funded by a DFF Sapere Aude research leader grant with grant number 0171-00034B.

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