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Desmond Patton

2 accepted papers

2022

Mitigating Covertly Unsafe Text within Natural Language Systems

EMNLP 2022finding

An increasingly prevalent problem for intelligent technologies is text safety, as uncontrolled systems may generate recommendations to their users that lead to injury or life-threatening consequences. However, the degree of explicitness of a generated statement that can cause physical harm varies. I…

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2022

SafeText: A Benchmark for Exploring Physical Safety in Language Models

EMNLP 2022main

Understanding what constitutes safe text is an important issue in natural language processing and can often prevent the deployment of models deemed harmful and unsafe. One such type of safety that has been scarcely studied is commonsense physical safety, i.e. text that is not explicitly violent and…