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title = "An Effective Approach for Informational and Lexical Bias Detection",
author = "Maab, Iffat and
Marrese-Taylor, Edison and
Matsuo, Yutaka",
editor = "Akhtar, Mubashara and
Aly, Rami and
Christodoulopoulos, Christos and
Cocarascu, Oana and
Guo, Zhijiang and
Mittal, Arpit and
Schlichtkrull, Michael and
Thorne, James and
Vlachos, Andreas",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth Fact Extraction and VERification Workshop (FEVER)",
month = may,
year = "2023",
address = "Dubrovnik, Croatia",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.fever-1.7",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.fever-1.7",
pages = "66--77",
abstract = "In this paper we present a thorough investigation of automatic bias recognition on BASIL, a dataset of political news which has been annotated with different kinds of biases. We begin by unveiling several inconsistencies in prior work using this dataset, showing that most approaches focus only on certain task formulations while ignoring others, and also failing to report important evaluation details. We provide a comprehensive categorization of these approaches, as well as a more uniform and clear set of evaluation metrics. We argue about the importance of the missing formulations and also propose the novel task of simultaneously detecting different kinds of biases in news. In our work, we tackle bias on six different BASIL classification tasks in a unified manner. Eventually, we introduce a simple yet effective approach based on data augmentation and preprocessing which is generic and works very well across models and task formulations, allowing us to obtain state-of-the-art results. We also perform ablation studies on some tasks to quantify the strength of data augmentation and preprocessing, and find that they correlate positively on all bias tasks.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T An Effective Approach for Informational and Lexical Bias Detection
%A Maab, Iffat
%A Marrese-Taylor, Edison
%A Matsuo, Yutaka
%Y Akhtar, Mubashara
%Y Aly, Rami
%Y Christodoulopoulos, Christos
%Y Cocarascu, Oana
%Y Guo, Zhijiang
%Y Mittal, Arpit
%Y Schlichtkrull, Michael
%Y Thorne, James
%Y Vlachos, Andreas
%S Proceedings of the Sixth Fact Extraction and VERification Workshop (FEVER)
%D 2023
%8 May
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Dubrovnik, Croatia
%F maab-etal-2023-effective
%X In this paper we present a thorough investigation of automatic bias recognition on BASIL, a dataset of political news which has been annotated with different kinds of biases. We begin by unveiling several inconsistencies in prior work using this dataset, showing that most approaches focus only on certain task formulations while ignoring others, and also failing to report important evaluation details. We provide a comprehensive categorization of these approaches, as well as a more uniform and clear set of evaluation metrics. We argue about the importance of the missing formulations and also propose the novel task of simultaneously detecting different kinds of biases in news. In our work, we tackle bias on six different BASIL classification tasks in a unified manner. Eventually, we introduce a simple yet effective approach based on data augmentation and preprocessing which is generic and works very well across models and task formulations, allowing us to obtain state-of-the-art results. We also perform ablation studies on some tasks to quantify the strength of data augmentation and preprocessing, and find that they correlate positively on all bias tasks.
%R 10.18653/v1/2023.fever-1.7
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.fever-1.7
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.fever-1.7
%P 66-77
Markdown (Informal)
[An Effective Approach for Informational and Lexical Bias Detection](https://aclanthology.org/2023.fever-1.7) (Maab et al., FEVER 2023)
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