Abstract
Language models have been shown to reproduce underlying biases existing in their training data, which is the majority perspective by default. Proposed solutions aim to capture minority perspectives by either modelling annotator disagreements or grouping annotators based on shared metadata, both of which face significant challenges. We propose a framework that trains models without encoding annotator metadata, extracts latent embeddings informed by annotator behaviour, and creates clusters of similar opinions, that we refer to as voices. Resulting clusters are validated post-hoc via internal and external quantitative metrics, as well a qualitative analysis to identify the type of voice that each cluster represents. Our results demonstrate the strong generalisation capability of our framework, indicated by resulting clusters being adequately robust, while also capturing minority perspectives based on different demographic factors throughout two distinct datasets.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.emnlp-main.696
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Miami, Florida, USA
- Editors:
- Yaser Al-Onaizan, Mohit Bansal, Yun-Nung Chen
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 12517–12539
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.696
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.696
- Cite (ACL):
- Nikolas Vitsakis, Amit Parekh, and Ioannis Konstas. 2024. Voices in a Crowd: Searching for clusters of unique perspectives. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 12517–12539, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Voices in a Crowd: Searching for clusters of unique perspectives (Vitsakis et al., EMNLP 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/dois-2013-emnlp/2024.emnlp-main.696.pdf