Abstract
Language models (LMs) have become pivotal in the realm of technological advancements. While their capabilities are vast and transformative, they often include societal biases encoded in the human-produced datasets used for their training. This research delves into the inherent biases present in masked language models (MLMs), with a specific focus on gender biases. This study evaluated six prominent models: BERT, RoBERTa, DistilBERT, BERT- multilingual, XLM-RoBERTa, and DistilBERT- multilingual. The methodology employed a novel dataset, bifurcated into two subsets: one containing prompts that encouraged models to generate subject pronouns in English and the other requiring models to return the probabilities of verbs, adverbs, and adjectives linked to the prompts’ gender pronouns. The analysis reveals stereotypical gender alignment of all models, with multilingual variants showing comparatively reduced biases.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.eacl-srw.6
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop
- Month:
- March
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- St. Julian’s, Malta
- Editors:
- Neele Falk, Sara Papi, Mike Zhang
- Venue:
- EACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 61–70
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-srw.6
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Iñigo Parra. 2024. UnMASKed: Quantifying Gender Biases in Masked Language Models through Linguistically Informed Job Market Prompts. In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop, pages 61–70, St. Julian’s, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- UnMASKed: Quantifying Gender Biases in Masked Language Models through Linguistically Informed Job Market Prompts (Parra, EACL 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2024.eacl-srw.6.pdf