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CrowS-Pairs: A Challenge Dataset for Measuring Social Biases in Masked Language Models
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Warning: This paper contains explicit statements of offensive stereotypes and may be upsetting.Pretrained language models, especially masked language models (MLMs) have seen success across many NLP tasks.However, there is ample evidence that they use the cultural biases that are undoubtedly present in the corpora they are trained on, implicitly creating harm with biased representations.To measure some forms of social bias in language models against protected demographic groups in the US, we introduce the Crowdsourced Stereotype Pairs benchmark (CrowS-Pairs).CrowS-Pairs has 1508 examples that cover stereotypes dealing with nine types of bias, like race, religion, and age.In CrowS-Pairs a model is presented with two sentences: one that is more stereotyping and another that is less stereotyping.The data focuses on stereotypes about historically disadvantaged groups and contrasts them with advantaged groups.We find that all three of the widelyused MLMs we evaluate substantially favor sentences that express stereotypes in every category in CrowS-Pairs.As work on building less biased models advances, this dataset can be used as a benchmark to evaluate progress.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Nangia, N., Vania, C., Bhalerao, R., & Bowman, S. R.
- Affiliations
- New York University (US)
- ORCID
- Bhalerao, Rasika
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
- Published
- 2020
- Pages
- 1953-1967
- OpenAlex
- W3089430725
- Cited by
- 446
- References
- 35
- Citations by year
- 2026: 71 · 2025: 93 · 2024: 64 · 2023: 121 · 2022: 60 · 2021: 36 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 56.53
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- TIB Data Manager
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (1922658)
- Nvidia
- Samsung
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
- Keywords
- social bias, masked language models, stereotypes, benchmark dataset, race, age, crowdsourced data
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