no code implementations • 19 Dec 2022 • Alex Mei, Sharon Levy, William Yang Wang
Users' physical safety is an increasing concern as the market for intelligent systems continues to grow, where unconstrained systems may recommend users dangerous actions that can lead to serious injury.
no code implementations • 21 Oct 2022 • Matthew Ho, Aditya Sharma, Justin Chang, Michael Saxon, Sharon Levy, Yujie Lu, William Yang Wang
As large language models (LLMs) grow larger and more sophisticated, assessing their "reasoning" capabilities in natural language grows more challenging.
no code implementations • 18 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.
no code implementations • 17 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.
1 code implementation • LREC 2022 • Samhita Honnavalli, Aesha Parekh, Lily Ou, Sophie Groenwold, Sharon Levy, Vicente Ordonez, William Yang Wang
Our results show that GPT-2 amplifies bias by considering women as junior and men as senior more often than the ground truth in both domains.
no code implementations • Findings (ACL) 2022 • Kai Nakamura, Sharon Levy, Yi-Lin Tuan, Wenhu Chen, William Yang Wang
A pressing challenge in current dialogue systems is to successfully converse with users on topics with information distributed across different modalities.
1 code implementation • 26 Jan 2022 • Alon Albalak, Sharon Levy, William Yang Wang
Open-retrieval question answering systems are generally trained and tested on large datasets in well-established domains.
1 code implementation • EMNLP (ACL) 2021 • Sharon Levy, Kevin Mo, Wenhan Xiong, William Yang Wang
In this work, we present such a system for the emergent domain of COVID-19.
1 code implementation • Findings (ACL) 2021 • Sharon Levy, Michael Saxon, William Yang Wang
In this work, we investigate the capability of language models to generate conspiracy theory text.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2021 • Michael Saxon, Sharon Levy, Xinyi Wang, Alon Albalak, William Yang Wang
Broader disclosive transparency$-$truth and clarity in communication regarding the function of AI systems$-$is widely considered desirable.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2020 • Sophie Groenwold, Lily Ou, Aesha Parekh, Samhita Honnavalli, Sharon Levy, Diba Mirza, William Yang Wang
The growth of social media has encouraged the written use of African American Vernacular English (AAVE), which has traditionally been used only in oral contexts.
no code implementations • ACL 2020 • Sharon Levy, William Yang Wang
The spread of COVID-19 has become a significant and troubling aspect of society in 2020.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Kai Nakamura, Sharon Levy, William Yang Wang
We construct hybrid text+image models and perform extensive experiments for multiple variations of classification, demonstrating the importance of the novel aspect of multimodality and fine-grained classification unique to Fakeddit.
no code implementations • 29 Apr 2020 • Sophie Groenwold, Samhita Honnavalli, Lily Ou, Aesha Parekh, Sharon Levy, Diba Mirza, William Yang Wang
As NLP tools become ubiquitous in today's technological landscape, they are increasingly applied to languages with a variety of typological structures.
3 code implementations • 10 Nov 2019 • Kai Nakamura, Sharon Levy, William Yang Wang
We construct hybrid text+image models and perform extensive experiments for multiple variations of classification, demonstrating the importance of the novel aspect of multimodality and fine-grained classification unique to Fakeddit.
1 code implementation • 3 Nov 2018 • Sharon Levy, Wenhan Xiong, Elizabeth Belding, William Yang Wang
We propose SafeRoute, a novel solution to the problem of navigating cities and avoiding street harassment and crime.