Building Stereotype Repositories with Complementary Approaches for Scale and Depth

Sunipa Dev, Akshita Jha, Jaya Goyal, Dinesh Tewari, Shachi Dave, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran


Abstract
Measurements of fairness in NLP have been critiqued for lacking concrete definitions of biases or harms measured, and for perpetuating a singular, Western narrative of fairness globally. To combat some of these pivotal issues, methods for curating datasets and benchmarks that target specific harms are rapidly emerging. However, these methods still face the significant challenge of achieving coverage over global cultures and perspectives at scale. To address this, in this paper, we highlight the utility and importance of complementary approaches that leverage both community engagement as well as large generative models, in these curation strategies. We specifically target the harm of stereotyping and demonstrate a pathway to build a benchmark that covers stereotypes about diverse, and intersectional identities. We discuss the two approaches, their advantages and constraints, the characteristics of the data they produce, and finally, their potential to be used complementarily for better evaluation of stereotyping harms.
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2023.c3nlp-1.9
Volume:
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP)
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May
Year:
2023
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Dubrovnik, Croatia
Editors:
Sunipa Dev, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, David Adelani, Dirk Hovy, Luciana Benotti
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C3NLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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84–90
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.c3nlp-1.9
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.c3nlp-1.9
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Sunipa Dev, Akshita Jha, Jaya Goyal, Dinesh Tewari, Shachi Dave, and Vinodkumar Prabhakaran. 2023. Building Stereotype Repositories with Complementary Approaches for Scale and Depth. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP), pages 84–90, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Building Stereotype Repositories with Complementary Approaches for Scale and Depth (Dev et al., C3NLP 2023)
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