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Generated texts from large language models (LLMs) have been shown to exhibit a variety of harmful, human-like biases against various demographics. These findings motivate research efforts aiming to understand and measure such effects. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Yuen Chen , Vethavikashini Chithrra Raghuram , Justus Mattern , Rada Mihalcea , Zhijing Jin

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed to handle various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, concerns regarding the potential negative societal impacts of LLM-generated content have also arisen. To evaluate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Song Wang , Peng Wang , Tong Zhou , Yushun Dong , Zhen Tan , Jundong Li

Recent research demonstrates that word embeddings, trained on the human-generated corpus, have strong gender biases in embedding spaces, and these biases can result in the discriminative results from the various downstream tasks. Whereas…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Seungjae Shin , Kyungwoo Song , JoonHo Jang , Hyemi Kim , Weonyoung Joo , Il-Chul Moon

Prior research has demonstrated that language models can, to a limited extent, represent moral norms in a variety of cultural contexts. This research aims to replicate these findings and further explore their validity, concentrating on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Evi Papadopoulou , Hadi Mohammadi , Ayoub Bagheri

Despite the growing reliance on fairness benchmarks to evaluate language models, the datasets that underpin these benchmarks remain critically underexamined. This survey addresses that overlooked foundation by offering a comprehensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jiale Zhang , Zichong Wang , Avash Palikhe , Zhipeng Yin , Wenbin Zhang

The recent and increasing interest in video-language research has driven the development of large-scale datasets that enable data-intensive machine learning techniques. In comparison, limited effort has been made at assessing the fitness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Mattia Soldan , Alejandro Pardo , Juan León Alcázar , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Chen Zhao , Silvio Giancola , Bernard Ghanem

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly those based on deep learning models, have increasingly achieved expert-level performance in medical applications. However, there is growing concern that such AI systems may reflect and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Xiuying Chen , Tairan Wang , Juexiao Zhou , Zirui Song , Xin Gao , Xiangliang Zhang

Large pretrained language models can easily produce toxic or biased content, which is prohibitive for practical use. In order to detect such toxic generations, existing methods rely on templates, real-world data extraction, crowdsourcing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Zhexin Zhang , Jiale Cheng , Hao Sun , Jiawen Deng , Fei Mi , Yasheng Wang , Lifeng Shang , Minlie Huang

Gender bias in artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing has garnered significant attention due to its potential impact on societal perceptions and biases. This research paper aims to analyze gender bias in Large Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Vishesh Thakur

The statistical regularities in language corpora encode well-known social biases into word embeddings. Here, we focus on gender to provide a comprehensive analysis of group-based biases in widely-used static English word embeddings trained…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Aylin Caliskan , Pimparkar Parth Ajay , Tessa Charlesworth , Robert Wolfe , Mahzarin R. Banaji

One of the biggest challenges of end-to-end language generation from meaning representations in dialogue systems is making the outputs more natural and varied. Here we take a large corpus of 50K crowd-sourced utterances in the restaurant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Juraj Juraska , Marilyn Walker

We examine whether large language models (LLMs) can predict biased decision-making in conversational settings, and whether their predictions capture not only human cognitive biases but also how those effects change under cognitive load. In…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Stephen Pilli , Vivek Nallur

This paper presents a systematic analysis of biases in open-source Large Language Models (LLMs), across gender, religion, and race. Our study evaluates bias in smaller-scale Llama and Gemma models using the SALT ($\textbf{S}$ocial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Samee Arif , Zohaib Khan , Maaidah Kaleem , Suhaib Rashid , Agha Ali Raza , Awais Athar

Target-guided response generation enables dialogue systems to smoothly transition a conversation from a dialogue context toward a target sentence. Such control is useful for designing dialogue systems that direct a conversation toward…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Prakhar Gupta , Harsh Jhamtani , Jeffrey P. Bigham

As the capabilities of generative language models continue to advance, the implications of biases ingrained within these models have garnered increasing attention from researchers, practitioners, and the broader public. This article…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Emilio Ferrara

Methods that can generate synthetic speech which is perceptually indistinguishable from speech recorded by a human speaker, are easily available. Several incidents report misuse of synthetic speech generated from these methods to commit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Amit Kumar Singh Yadav , Kratika Bhagtani , Davide Salvi , Paolo Bestagini , Edward J. Delp

Disfluency detection is a critical task in real-time dialogue systems. However, despite its importance, it remains a relatively unexplored field, mainly due to the lack of appropriate datasets. At the same time, existing datasets suffer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-04 T. Passali , T. Mavropoulos , G. Tsoumakas , G. Meditskos , S. Vrochidis

Large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced the field of automated code generation. However, a notable research gap exists in evaluating social biases that may be present in the code produced by LLMs. To solve this issue, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Lin Ling , Fazle Rabbi , Song Wang , Jinqiu Yang

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of demographic and linguistic biases in omnimodal language models that process text, images, audio, and video within a single framework. Although these models are being widely deployed, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Alaa Elobaid

Artificial Intelligence has the capacity to amplify and perpetuate societal biases and presents profound ethical implications for society. Gender bias has been identified in the context of employment advertising and recruitment tools, due…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Susan Leavy , Gerardine Meaney , Karen Wade , Derek Greene