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Your Stereotypical Mileage may Vary: Practical Challenges of Evaluating Biases in Multiple Languages and Cultural Contexts

Yuyan Qian
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Shilin Xie
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Warning: This paper contains explicit statements of offensive stereotypes which may be upsetting The study of bias, fairness and social impact in Natural Language Processing (NLP) lacks resources in languages other than English. Our objective is to support the evaluation of bias in language models in a multilingual setting. We use stereotypes across nine types of biases to build a corpus containing contrasting sentence pairs, one sentence that presents a stereotype concerning an underadvantaged group and another minimally changed sentence, concerning a matching advantaged group. We build on the French CrowS-Pairs corpus and guidelines to provide translations of the existing material into seven additional languages. In total, we produce 11,139 new sentence pairs that cover stereotypes dealing with nine types of biases in seven cultural contexts. We use the final resource for the evaluation of relevant monolingual and multilingual masked language models. We find that language models in all languages favor sentences that express stereotypes in most bias categories. The process of creating a resource that covers a wide range of language types and cultural settings highlights the difficulty of bias evaluation, in particular comparability across languages and contexts.
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hal-04537096 , version 1 (08-04-2024)

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Karën Fort, Laura Alonso Alemany, Luciana Benotti, Julien Bezançon, Claudia Borg, et al.. Your Stereotypical Mileage may Vary: Practical Challenges of Evaluating Biases in Multiple Languages and Cultural Contexts. The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, May 2024, Turin (Italie), Italy. ⟨hal-04537096⟩
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