How people talk about each other: Modeling Generalized Intergroup Bias and Emotion (2023.eacl-main)
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Venkata Subrahmanyan Govindarajan, Katherine Atwell, Barea Sinno, Malihe Alikhani, David I. Beaver, Junyi Jessy Li
| Challenge: | Current studies of bias in NLP rely on identifying (unwanted or negative) bias towards a specific demographic group, but this is not always practical. |
| Approach: | They extrapolate a notion of bias from social science literature to predict interpersonal group relationship (IGR) using interpersonal emotions as an anchor. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model predicts the interpersonal group relationship (IGR) using interpersonal emotions as an anchor. |
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