Sanjana Marcé


2022

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On Gender Biases in Offensive Language Classification Models
Sanjana Marcé | Adam Poliak
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP)

We explore whether neural Natural Language Processing models trained to identify offensive language in tweets contain gender biases. We add historically gendered and gender ambiguous American names to an existing offensive language evaluation set to determine whether models? predictions are sensitive or robust to gendered names. While we see some evidence that these models might be prone to biased stereotypes that men use more offensive language than women, our results indicate that these models? binary predictions might not greatly change based upon gendered names.
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