Using Item Response Theory to Measure Gender and Racial Bias of a BERT-based Automated English Speech Assessment System

no code implementations • NAACL (BEA) 2022 • Alexander Kwako, Yixin Wan, Jieyu Zhao, Kai-Wei Chang, Li Cai, Mark Hansen

This study addresses the need to examine potential biases of transformer-based models in the context of automated English speech assessment.