TagDebias: Entity and Concept Tagging for Social Bias Mitigation in Pretrained Language Models

Mehrnaz Moslemi, Amal Zouaq


Abstract
Pre-trained language models (PLMs) play a crucial role in various applications, including sensitive domains such as the hiring process. However, extensive research has unveiled that these models tend to replicate social biases present in their pre-training data, raising ethical concerns. In this study, we propose the TagDebias method, which proposes debiasing a dataset using type tags. It then proceeds to fine-tune PLMs on this debiased dataset. Experiments show that our proposed TagDebias model, when applied to a ranking task, exhibits significant improvements in bias scores.
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2024.findings-naacl.101
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024
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2024
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Mexico City, Mexico
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Kevin Duh, Helena Gomez, Steven Bethard
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Mehrnaz Moslemi and Amal Zouaq. 2024. TagDebias: Entity and Concept Tagging for Social Bias Mitigation in Pretrained Language Models. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024, pages 1553–1567, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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