Systematic Offensive Stereotyping (SOS) Bias in Language Models
This addresses bias and fairness issues in language models for marginalized groups, but it is incremental as it builds on existing debias methods and focuses on a specific domain.
The paper tackles the problem of Systematic Offensive Stereotyping (SOS) bias in language models by proposing a new metric to measure it, validating its existence, and investigating its impact on hate speech detection fairness, finding that all inspected LMs are SOS biased and that debias methods can worsen bias for some attributes.
In this paper, we propose a new metric to measure the SOS bias in language models (LMs). Then, we validate the SOS bias and investigate the effectiveness of removing it. Finally, we investigate the impact of the SOS bias in LMs on their performance and fairness on hate speech detection. Our results suggest that all the inspected LMs are SOS biased. And that the SOS bias is reflective of the online hate experienced by marginalized identities. The results indicate that using debias methods from the literature worsens the SOS bias in LMs for some sensitive attributes and improves it for others. Finally, Our results suggest that the SOS bias in the inspected LMs has an impact on their fairness of hate speech detection. However, there is no strong evidence that the SOS bias has an impact on the performance of hate speech detection.