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title = "Automated Ableism: An Exploration of Explicit Disability Biases in Sentiment and Toxicity Analysis Models",
author = "Narayanan Venkit, Pranav and
Srinath, Mukund and
Wilson, Shomir",
editor = "Ovalle, Anaelia and
Chang, Kai-Wei and
Mehrabi, Ninareh and
Pruksachatkun, Yada and
Galystan, Aram and
Dhamala, Jwala and
Verma, Apurv and
Cao, Trista and
Kumar, Anoop and
Gupta, Rahul",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Trustworthy Natural Language Processing (TrustNLP 2023)",
month = jul,
year = "2023",
address = "Toronto, Canada",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.trustnlp-1.3/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.trustnlp-1.3",
pages = "26--34",
abstract = "We analyze sentiment analysis and toxicity detection models to detect the presence of explicit bias against people with disability (PWD). We employ the bias identification framework of Perturbation Sensitivity Analysis to examine conversations related to PWD on social media platforms, specifically Twitter and Reddit, in order to gain insight into how disability bias is disseminated in real-world social settings. We then create the Bias Identification Test in Sentiment (BITS) corpus to quantify explicit disability bias in any sentiment analysis and toxicity detection models. Our study utilizes BITS to uncover significant biases in four open AIaaS (AI as a Service) sentiment analysis tools, namely TextBlob, VADER, Google Cloud Natural Language API, DistilBERT and two toxicity detection models, namely two versions of Toxic-BERT. Our findings indicate that all of these models exhibit statistically significant explicit bias against PWD."
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%T Automated Ableism: An Exploration of Explicit Disability Biases in Sentiment and Toxicity Analysis Models
%A Narayanan Venkit, Pranav
%A Srinath, Mukund
%A Wilson, Shomir
%Y Ovalle, Anaelia
%Y Chang, Kai-Wei
%Y Mehrabi, Ninareh
%Y Pruksachatkun, Yada
%Y Galystan, Aram
%Y Dhamala, Jwala
%Y Verma, Apurv
%Y Cao, Trista
%Y Kumar, Anoop
%Y Gupta, Rahul
%S Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Trustworthy Natural Language Processing (TrustNLP 2023)
%D 2023
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Toronto, Canada
%F narayanan-venkit-etal-2023-automated
%X We analyze sentiment analysis and toxicity detection models to detect the presence of explicit bias against people with disability (PWD). We employ the bias identification framework of Perturbation Sensitivity Analysis to examine conversations related to PWD on social media platforms, specifically Twitter and Reddit, in order to gain insight into how disability bias is disseminated in real-world social settings. We then create the Bias Identification Test in Sentiment (BITS) corpus to quantify explicit disability bias in any sentiment analysis and toxicity detection models. Our study utilizes BITS to uncover significant biases in four open AIaaS (AI as a Service) sentiment analysis tools, namely TextBlob, VADER, Google Cloud Natural Language API, DistilBERT and two toxicity detection models, namely two versions of Toxic-BERT. Our findings indicate that all of these models exhibit statistically significant explicit bias against PWD.
%R 10.18653/v1/2023.trustnlp-1.3
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.trustnlp-1.3/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.trustnlp-1.3
%P 26-34
Markdown (Informal)
[Automated Ableism: An Exploration of Explicit Disability Biases in Sentiment and Toxicity Analysis Models](https://aclanthology.org/2023.trustnlp-1.3/) (Narayanan Venkit et al., TrustNLP 2023)
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