Speciesist language and nonhuman animal bias in English Masked Language Models
作者:
Highlights:
• We conducted research to examine if language models inherit biases toward animals.
• We used template sentences and sentences extracted from a corpus to test the biases.
• We found that some MLMs associate harmful words with non-human animals.
摘要
•We conducted research to examine if language models inherit biases toward animals.•We used template sentences and sentences extracted from a corpus to test the biases.•We found that some MLMs associate harmful words with non-human animals.
论文关键词:Social bias,Bias evaluation,Masked Language Model,Animal ethics,Speciesism
论文评审过程:Received 13 March 2022, Revised 1 July 2022, Accepted 24 July 2022, Available online 9 August 2022, Version of Record 9 August 2022.
论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2022.103050