Towards Massive Multilingual Holistic Bias

Xiaoqing Tan, Prangthip Hansanti, Arina Turkatenko, Joe Chuang, Carleigh Wood, Bokai Yu, Christophe Ropers, Marta R. Costa-jussà


Abstract
In the current landscape of automatic language generation, there is a need to understand, evaluate, and mitigate demographic biases, as existing models are becoming increasingly multilingual. To address this, we present the initial eight languages from the Massive Multilingual Holistic Bias (MMHB) dataset and benchmark consisting of approximately 6 million sentences. The sentences are designed to induce biases towards different groups of people which can yield significant results when using them as a benchmark to test different text generation models. To further scale up in terms of both language coverage and size and to leverage limited human translation, we use systematic approach to independently translate sentence parts. This technique carefully designs a structure to dynamically generate multiple sentence variations and significantly reduces the human translation workload. The translation process has been meticulously conducted to avoid an English-centric perspective and include all necessary morphological variations for languages that require them, improving from the original English HOLISTICBIAS. Finally, we utilize MMHB to report results on gender bias and added toxicity in MT tasks.
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2025.gebnlp-1.35
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Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP)
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August
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2025
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Vienna, Austria
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Agnieszka Faleńska, Christine Basta, Marta Costa-jussà, Karolina Stańczak, Debora Nozza
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Xiaoqing Tan, Prangthip Hansanti, Arina Turkatenko, Joe Chuang, Carleigh Wood, Bokai Yu, Christophe Ropers, and Marta R. Costa-jussà. 2025. Towards Massive Multilingual Holistic Bias. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP), pages 403–426, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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