Sociolectal Analysis of Pretrained Language Models

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Using data from English cloze tests, in which subjects also self-reported their gender, age, education, and race, we examine performance differences of pretrained language models across demographic groups, defined by these (protected) attributes. We demonstrate wide performance gaps across demographic groups and show that pretrained language models systematically disfavor young non-white male speakers; i.e., not only do pretrained language models learn social biases (stereotypical associations) – pretrained language models also learn sociolectal biases, learning to speak more like some than like others. We show, however, that, with the exception of BERT models, larger pretrained language models reduce some the performance gaps between majority and minority groups.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelProceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
ForlagAssociation for Computational Linguistics
Publikationsdato2021
Sider4581–4588
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2021
Begivenhed2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing -
Varighed: 7 nov. 202111 nov. 2021

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Konference2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Periode07/11/202111/11/2021

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