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%0 Journal Article
%T Quantifying Social Biases in NLP: A Generalization and Empirical Comparison of Extrinsic Fairness Metrics
%A Czarnowska, Paula
%A Vyas, Yogarshi
%A Shah, Kashif
%J Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
%D 2021
%V 9
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%F czarnowska-etal-2021-quantifying
%X Abstract Measuring bias is key for better understanding and addressing unfairness in NLP/ML models. This is often done via fairness metrics, which quantify the differences in a model’s behaviour across a range of demographic groups. In this work, we shed more light on the differences and similarities between the fairness metrics used in NLP. First, we unify a broad range of existing metrics under three generalized fairness metrics, revealing the connections between them. Next, we carry out an extensive empirical comparison of existing metrics and demonstrate that the observed differences in bias measurement can be systematically explained via differences in parameter choices for our generalized metrics.
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%R 10.1162/tacl_a_00425
%U https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.74
%U https://doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00425
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Markdown (Informal)

[Quantifying Social Biases in NLP: A Generalization and Empirical Comparison of Extrinsic Fairness Metrics](https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.74) (Czarnowska et al., TACL 2021)

• Quantifying Social Biases in NLP: A Generalization and Empirical Comparison of Extrinsic Fairness Metrics (Czarnowska et al., TACL 2021)

ACL

• Paula Czarnowska, Yogarshi Vyas, and Kashif Shah. 2021. Quantifying Social Biases in NLP: A Generalization and Empirical Comparison of Extrinsic Fairness Metrics. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 9:1249–1267.