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    <abstract>Social commonsense contains many human biases due to social and cultural influence (Sap et al., 2020; Emelin et al., 2020). We focus on identifying cultural biases in data, specifically causal assumptions and commonsense implications, that strongly influence model decisions for a variety of tasks designed for social impact. This enables us to examine data for bias by making explicit the causal (if-then, inferential) relations in social commonsense knowledge used for decision making, furthering interpretable commonsense reasoning from a dataset perspective. We apply our methods on 2 social tasks: emotion detection and perceived value detection. We identify influential social commonsense knowledge to explain model behavior in the following ways. First, we augment large-scale language models with social knowledge and show improvements for the tasks, indicating the implicit assumptions a model requires to be successful on each dataset. Second, we identify influential events in the datasets by using social knowledge to cluster data and demonstrate the influence that these events have on model behavior via leave-K-out experiments. This allows us to gain a dataset-level understanding of the events and causal commonsense relationships that strongly influence predictions. We then analyze these relationships to detect influential cultural bias in each dataset. Finally, we use our influential event identification for detecting mislabeled examples and improve training and performance through their removal. We support our findings with manual analysis.</abstract>
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Social Commonsense for Explanation and Cultural Bias Discovery
%A Bauer, Lisa
%A Tischer, Hanna
%A Bansal, Mohit
%Y Vlachos, Andreas
%Y Augenstein, Isabelle
%S Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
%D 2023
%8 May
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Dubrovnik, Croatia
%F bauer-etal-2023-social
%X Social commonsense contains many human biases due to social and cultural influence (Sap et al., 2020; Emelin et al., 2020). We focus on identifying cultural biases in data, specifically causal assumptions and commonsense implications, that strongly influence model decisions for a variety of tasks designed for social impact. This enables us to examine data for bias by making explicit the causal (if-then, inferential) relations in social commonsense knowledge used for decision making, furthering interpretable commonsense reasoning from a dataset perspective. We apply our methods on 2 social tasks: emotion detection and perceived value detection. We identify influential social commonsense knowledge to explain model behavior in the following ways. First, we augment large-scale language models with social knowledge and show improvements for the tasks, indicating the implicit assumptions a model requires to be successful on each dataset. Second, we identify influential events in the datasets by using social knowledge to cluster data and demonstrate the influence that these events have on model behavior via leave-K-out experiments. This allows us to gain a dataset-level understanding of the events and causal commonsense relationships that strongly influence predictions. We then analyze these relationships to detect influential cultural bias in each dataset. Finally, we use our influential event identification for detecting mislabeled examples and improve training and performance through their removal. We support our findings with manual analysis.
%R 10.18653/v1/2023.eacl-main.271
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-main.271
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.eacl-main.271
%P 3745-3760

Markdown (Informal)

[Social Commonsense for Explanation and Cultural Bias Discovery](https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-main.271) (Bauer et al., EACL 2023)

• Social Commonsense for Explanation and Cultural Bias Discovery (Bauer et al., EACL 2023)

ACL

• Lisa Bauer, Hanna Tischer, and Mohit Bansal. 2023. Social Commonsense for Explanation and Cultural Bias Discovery. In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 3745–3760, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics.