Emily Sheng

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

2019 · arXiv (Cornell University)

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. In this work, we introduce the notion of the regard …

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

2020 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Ad hominem attacks are those that target some feature of a person's character instead of the position the person is maintaining. These attacks are harmful because they propagate implicit biases and diminish a person's credibility. …

What do Bias Measures Measure

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Natural Language Processing (NLP) models propagate social biases about protected attributes such as gender, race, and nationality. To create interventions and mitigate these biases and associated harms, it is vital to be able to detect …