@inproceedings{sjavik-touileb-2025-ableism,
    title = "Ableism, Ageism, Gender, and Nationality bias in {N}orwegian and Multilingual Language Models",
    author = "Sj{\r{a}}vik, Martin  and
      Touileb, Samia",
    editor = "Fale{\'n}ska, Agnieszka  and
      Basta, Christine  and
      Costa-juss{\`a}, Marta  and
      Sta{\'n}czak, Karolina  and
      Nozza, Debora",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP)",
    month = aug,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Vienna, Austria",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/display_plenaries/2025.gebnlp-1.32/",
    pages = "379--392",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-277-0",
    abstract = "We investigate biases related to ageism, ableism, nationality, and gender in four Norwegian and two multilingual language models. Our methodology involves using a set of templates. constructed around stimuli and attributes relevant to these categories. We use statistical and predictive evaluation methods, including Kendall{'}s Tau correlation and dependent variable prediction rates, to assess model behaviour and output bias. Our findings indicate that models frequently associate older individuals, people with disabilities, and poorer countries with negative attributes, potentially reinforcing harmful stereotypes. However, most tested models appear to handle gender-related biases more effectively. Our findings indicate a correlation between the sentiment of the input and that of the output."
}