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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Publication date2022
Pages4716-4726
ISBN (Electronic)9781955917711
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Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL 2022 - Seattle, United States
Duration: 10 Jul 202215 Jul 2022

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Conference2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL 2022
LandUnited States
BySeattle
Periode10/07/202215/07/2022
SponsorAmazon, Bloomberg, et al., Google Research, LIVE PERSON, Meta

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