NAACL 2025long0 citations

Ethical Concern Identification in NLP: A Corpus of ACL Anthology Ethics Statements

Antonia Karamolegkou, Sandrine Schiller Hansen, Ariadni Christopoulou, Filippos Stamatiou, Anne Lauscher, Anders Søgaard

Abstract

What ethical concerns, if any, do LLM researchers have? We introduce EthiCon, a corpus of 1,580 ethical concern statements extracted from scientific papers published in the ACL Anthology. We extract ethical concern keywords from the statements and show promising results in automating the concern identification process. Through a survey (N=200), we compare the ethical concerns of the corpus to the concerns listed by the general public and professionals in the field. Finally, we compare our retrieved ethical concerns with existing taxonomies and guidelines pointing to gaps and actionable insights.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{karamolegkou-etal-2025-ethical,
    title = "Ethical Concern Identification in {NLP}: A Corpus of {ACL} {A}nthology Ethics Statements",
    author = "Karamolegkou, Antonia  and
      Hansen, Sandrine Schiller  and
      Christopoulou, Ariadni  and
      Stamatiou, Filippos  and
      Lauscher, Anne  and
      S{\o}gaard, Anders",
    editor = "Chiruzzo, Luis  and
      Ritter, Alan  and
      Wang, Lu",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Albuquerque, New Mexico",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-long.580/",
    pages = "11618--11635",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-189-6"
}
Ethical Concern Identification in NLP: A Corpus of ACL Anthology Ethics Statements · NAACL 2025