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Emily Sheng

6 accepted papers

2025

Position: Evaluating Generative AI Systems Is a Social Science Measurement Challenge

ICML 2025poster

The measurement tasks involved in evaluating generative AI (GenAI) systems lack sufficient scientific rigor, leading to what has been described as "a tangle of sloppy tests [and] apples-to-oranges comparisons" (Roose, 2024). In this position paper, we argue that the ML community would benefit from l…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Taxonomizing Representational Harms using Speech Act Theory

ACL 2025finding

Representational harms are widely recognized among fairness-related harms caused by generative language systems. However, their definitions are commonly under-specified. We make a theoretical contribution to the specification of representational harms by introducing a framework, grounded in speech a…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Understanding and Meeting Practitioner Needs When Measuring Representational Harms Caused by LLM-Based Systems

ACL 2025finding

The NLP research community has made publicly available numerous instruments for measuring representational harms caused by large language model (LLM)-based systems. These instruments have taken the form of datasets, metrics, tools, and more. In this paper, we examine the extent to which such instrum…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2023

FairPrism: Evaluating Fairness-Related Harms in Text Generation

ACL 2023long

It is critical to measure and mitigate fairness-related harms caused by AI text generation systems, including stereotyping and demeaning harms. To that end, we introduce FairPrism, a dataset of 5,000 examples of AI-generated English text with detailed human annotations covering a diverse set of harm…

2021

Societal Biases in Language Generation: Progress and Challenges

ACL 2021long

Technology for language generation has advanced rapidly, spurred by advancements in pre-training large models on massive amounts of data and the need for intelligent agents to communicate in a natural manner. While techniques can effectively generate fluent text, they can also produce undesirable so…

2021

“Nice Try, Kiddo”: Investigating Ad Hominems in Dialogue Responses

NAACL 2021long

Ad hominem attacks are those that target some feature of a person’s character instead of the position the person is maintaining. These attacks are harmful because they propagate implicit biases and diminish a person’s credibility. Since dialogue systems respond directly to user input, it is importan…