David Beaver

2024

Do they mean ‘us’? Interpreting Referring Expression variation under Intergroup Bias

Venkata S Govindarajan, Matianyu Zang, Kyle Mahowald, David Beaver, Junyi Jessy Li

EMNLP 2024finding

The variations between in-group and out-group speech (intergroup bias) are subtle and could underlie many social phenomena like stereotype perpetuation and implicit bias. In this paper, we model intergroup bias as a tagging task on English sports comments from forums dedicated to fandom for NFL team…

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2023

Counterfactual Probing for the Influence of Affect and Specificity on Intergroup Bias

Venkata Subrahmanyan Govindarajan, David Beaver, Kyle Mahowald, Junyi Jessy Li

ACL 2023findings

While existing work on studying bias in NLP focues on negative or pejorative language use, Govindarajan et al. (2023) offer a revised framing of bias in terms of intergroup social context, and its effects on language behavior. In this paper, we investigate if two pragmatic features (specificity and…

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Do *they* mean ‘us’? Interpreting Referring Expression variation under Intergroup Bias

Counterfactual Probing for the Influence of Affect and Specificity on Intergroup Bias

Do they mean ‘us’? Interpreting Referring Expression variation under Intergroup Bias