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Sebastian Cifuentes

2 accepted papers

2024

A Study of Nationality Bias in Names and Perplexity using Off-the-Shelf Affect-related Tweet Classifiers

EMNLP 2024main

In this paper, we apply a method to quantify biases associated with named entities from various countries. We create counterfactual examples with small perturbations on target-domain data instead of relying on templates or specific datasets for bias detection. On widely used classifiers for subjecti…

2024

Are Text Classifiers Xenophobic? A Country-Oriented Bias Detection Method with Least Confounding Variables

COLING 2024main

Classical bias detection methods used in Machine Learning are themselves biased because of the different confounding variables implied in the assessment of the initial biases. First they are using templates that are syntactically simple and distant from the target data on which the model will deploy…

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