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Unpacking the Interdependent Systems of Discrimination: Ableist Bias in NLP Systems through an Intersectional Lens

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arxiv 2110.00521 v1 pith:NPWPTK4U submitted 2021-10-01 cs.CL cs.AI

classification cs.CLcs.AI
keywords systemsableistbiasdisabilitiesdiscriminationlanguagepeopleabilities
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Much of the world's population experiences some form of disability during their lifetime. Caution must be exercised while designing natural language processing (NLP) systems to prevent systems from inadvertently perpetuating ableist bias against people with disabilities, i.e., prejudice that favors those with typical abilities. We report on various analyses based on word predictions of a large-scale BERT language model. Statistically significant results demonstrate that people with disabilities can be disadvantaged. Findings also explore overlapping forms of discrimination related to interconnected gender and race identities.

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  1. Disability Across Cultures: A Human-Centered Audit of Ableism in Western and Indic LLMs

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    Western-trained LLMs overrate ableist speech relative to Indian disabled people, Indic LLMs underrate it, and several models judge the same comments as less ableist in Hindi than in English.

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