Search Results for author: Desmond Patton

Found 7 papers, 2 papers with code

Evaluation of African American Language Bias in Natural Language Generation

no code implementations23 May 2023 Nicholas Deas, Jessi Grieser, Shana Kleiner, Desmond Patton, Elsbeth Turcan, Kathleen McKeown

We evaluate how well LLMs understand African American Language (AAL) in comparison to their performance on White Mainstream English (WME), the encouraged "standard" form of English taught in American classrooms.

Text Generation

SafeText: A Benchmark for Exploring Physical Safety in Language Models

no code implementations18 Oct 2022 Sharon Levy, Emily Allaway, Melanie Subbiah, Lydia Chilton, Desmond Patton, Kathleen McKeown, William Yang Wang

Understanding what constitutes safe text is an important issue in natural language processing and can often prevent the deployment of models deemed harmful and unsafe.

Text Generation

Mitigating Covertly Unsafe Text within Natural Language Systems

no code implementations17 Oct 2022 Alex Mei, Anisha Kabir, Sharon Levy, Melanie Subbiah, Emily Allaway, John Judge, Desmond Patton, Bruce Bimber, Kathleen McKeown, William Yang Wang

An increasingly prevalent problem for intelligent technologies is text safety, as uncontrolled systems may generate recommendations to their users that lead to injury or life-threatening consequences.

Detecting and Reducing Bias in a High Stakes Domain

1 code implementation IJCNLP 2019 Ruiqi Zhong, Yanda Chen, Desmond Patton, Charlotte Selous, Kathy Mckeown

Gang-involved youth in cities such as Chicago sometimes post on social media to express their aggression towards rival gangs and previous research has demonstrated that a deep learning approach can predict aggression and loss in posts.

Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction

Detecting Gang-Involved Escalation on Social Media Using Context

1 code implementation EMNLP 2018 Serina Chang, Ruiqi Zhong, Ethan Adams, Fei-Tzin Lee, Siddharth Varia, Desmond Patton, William Frey, Chris Kedzie, Kathleen McKeown

Gang-involved youth in cities such as Chicago have increasingly turned to social media to post about their experiences and intents online.

Multimodal Social Media Analysis for Gang Violence Prevention

no code implementations23 Jul 2018 Philipp Blandfort, Desmond Patton, William R. Frey, Svebor Karaman, Surabhi Bhargava, Fei-Tzin Lee, Siddharth Varia, Chris Kedzie, Michael B. Gaskell, Rossano Schifanella, Kathleen McKeown, Shih-Fu Chang

In this paper we partnered computer scientists with social work researchers, who have domain expertise in gang violence, to analyze how public tweets with images posted by youth who mention gang associations on Twitter can be leveraged to automatically detect psychosocial factors and conditions that could potentially assist social workers and violence outreach workers in prevention and early intervention programs.

General Classification

Automatically Processing Tweets from Gang-Involved Youth: Towards Detecting Loss and Aggression

no code implementations COLING 2016 Terra Blevins, Robert Kwiatkowski, Jamie MacBeth, Kathleen McKeown, Desmond Patton, Owen Rambow

Violence is a serious problems for cities like Chicago and has been exacerbated by the use of social media by gang-involved youths for taunting rival gangs.

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