Search Results for author: Emily Sheng

Found 14 papers, 8 papers with code

On Measures of Biases and Harms in NLP

no code implementations7 Aug 2021 Sunipa Dev, Emily Sheng, Jieyu Zhao, Aubrie Amstutz, Jiao Sun, Yu Hou, Mattie Sanseverino, Jiin Kim, Akihiro Nishi, Nanyun Peng, Kai-Wei Chang

Recent studies show that Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies propagate societal biases about demographic groups associated with attributes such as gender, race, and nationality.

``Nice Try, Kiddo'': Investigating Ad Hominems in Dialogue Responses

no code implementations NAACL 2021 Emily Sheng, Kai-Wei Chang, Prem Natarajan, Nanyun Peng

Ad hominem attacks are those that target some feature of a person{'}s character instead of the position the person is maintaining.

Abusive Language

Societal Biases in Language Generation: Progress and Challenges

1 code implementation ACL 2021 Emily Sheng, Kai-Wei Chang, Premkumar Natarajan, Nanyun Peng

Technology for language generation has advanced rapidly, spurred by advancements in pre-training large models on massive amounts of data and the need for intelligent agents to communicate in a natural manner.

Fairness Text Generation

Revealing Persona Biases in Dialogue Systems

1 code implementation18 Apr 2021 Emily Sheng, Josh Arnold, Zhou Yu, Kai-Wei Chang, Nanyun Peng

Dialogue systems in the form of chatbots and personal assistants are being increasingly integrated into people's lives.

Investigating Societal Biases in a Poetry Composition System

1 code implementation GeBNLP (COLING) 2020 Emily Sheng, David Uthus

There is a growing collection of work analyzing and mitigating societal biases in language understanding, generation, and retrieval tasks, though examining biases in creative tasks remains underexplored.

Data Augmentation Retrieval +1

"Nice Try, Kiddo": Investigating Ad Hominems in Dialogue Responses

1 code implementation24 Oct 2020 Emily Sheng, Kai-Wei Chang, Premkumar Natarajan, Nanyun Peng

Ad hominem attacks are those that target some feature of a person's character instead of the position the person is maintaining.

Abusive Language

The Woman Worked as a Babysitter: On Biases in Language Generation

1 code implementation IJCNLP 2019 Emily Sheng, Kai-Wei Chang, Premkumar Natarajan, Nanyun Peng

We present a systematic study of biases in natural language generation (NLG) by analyzing text generated from prompts that contain mentions of different demographic groups.

Language Modelling Text Generation +1

A Byte-sized Approach to Named Entity Recognition

1 code implementation22 Sep 2018 Emily Sheng, Prem Natarajan

In biomedical literature, it is common for entity boundaries to not align with word boundaries.

named-entity-recognition Named Entity Recognition +1

An Investigation into the Pedagogical Features of Documents

no code implementations WS 2017 Emily Sheng, Prem Natarajan, Jonathan Gordon, Gully Burns

We refer to this learning utility as the "pedagogical value" of the document to the learner.

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