On the Intrinsic and Extrinsic Fairness Evaluation Metrics for Contextualized Language Representations
Yang Trista Cao, Yada Pruksachatkun, Kai-Wei Chang, Rahul Gupta, Varun Kumar, Jwala Dhamala, Aram Galstyan
Abstract
Multiple metrics have been introduced to measure fairness in various natural language processing tasks. These metrics can be roughly categorized into two categories: 1) extrinsic metrics for evaluating fairness in downstream applications and 2) intrinsic metrics for estimating fairness in upstream contextualized language representation models. In this paper, we conduct an extensive correlation study between intrinsic and extrinsic metrics across bias notions using 19 contextualized language models. We find that intrinsic and extrinsic metrics do not necessarily correlate in their original setting, even when correcting for metric misalignments, noise in evaluation datasets, and confounding factors such as experiment configuration for extrinsic metrics.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.acl-short.62
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Dublin, Ireland
- Editors:
- Smaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov, Aline Villavicencio
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 561–570
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-short.62
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2022.acl-short.62
- Cite (ACL):
- Yang Trista Cao, Yada Pruksachatkun, Kai-Wei Chang, Rahul Gupta, Varun Kumar, Jwala Dhamala, and Aram Galstyan. 2022. On the Intrinsic and Extrinsic Fairness Evaluation Metrics for Contextualized Language Representations. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 561–570, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- On the Intrinsic and Extrinsic Fairness Evaluation Metrics for Contextualized Language Representations (Cao et al., ACL 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/2022.acl-short.62.pdf
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