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%T Annotators with Attitudes: How Annotator Beliefs And Identities Bias Toxic Language Detection
%A Sap, Maarten
%A Swayamdipta, Swabha
%A Vianna, Laura
%A Zhou, Xuhui
%A Choi, Yejin
%A Smith, Noah A.
%Y Carpuat, Marine
%Y de Marneffe, Marie-Catherine
%Y Meza Ruiz, Ivan Vladimir
%S Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
%D 2022
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Seattle, United States
%F sap-etal-2022-annotators
%X The perceived toxicity of language can vary based on someone’s identity and beliefs, but this variation is often ignored when collecting toxic language datasets, resulting in dataset and model biases. We seek to understand the *who*, *why*, and *what* behind biases in toxicity annotations. In two online studies with demographically and politically diverse participants, we investigate the effect of annotator identities (*who*) and beliefs (*why*), drawing from social psychology research about hate speech, free speech, racist beliefs, political leaning, and more. We disentangle *what* is annotated as toxic by considering posts with three characteristics: anti-Black language, African American English (AAE) dialect, and vulgarity. Our results show strong associations between annotator identity and beliefs and their ratings of toxicity. Notably, more conservative annotators and those who scored highly on our scale for racist beliefs were less likely to rate anti-Black language as toxic, but more likely to rate AAE as toxic. We additionally present a case study illustrating how a popular toxicity detection system’s ratings inherently reflect only specific beliefs and perspectives. Our findings call for contextualizing toxicity labels in social variables, which raises immense implications for toxic language annotation and detection.
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%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.431
%P 5884-5906

Markdown (Informal)

[Annotators with Attitudes: How Annotator Beliefs And Identities Bias Toxic Language Detection](https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.431) (Sap et al., NAACL 2022)

• Annotators with Attitudes: How Annotator Beliefs And Identities Bias Toxic Language Detection (Sap et al., NAACL 2022)

ACL

• Maarten Sap, Swabha Swayamdipta, Laura Vianna, Xuhui Zhou, Yejin Choi, and Noah A. Smith. 2022. Annotators with Attitudes: How Annotator Beliefs And Identities Bias Toxic Language Detection. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 5884–5906, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.