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paperswithcode_id: md-gender
pretty_name: Multi-Dimensional Gender Bias Classification
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Dataset Card for Multi-Dimensional Gender Bias Classification
Table of Contents
- Dataset Description
- Dataset Structure
- Dataset Creation
- Considerations for Using the Data
- Additional Information
Dataset Description
- Homepage: ParlAI MD Gender Project Page
- Repository: ParlAI Github MD Gender Repository
- Paper: Multi-Dimensional Gender Bias Classification
- Leaderboard: [Needs More Information]
- Point of Contact: [email protected]
Dataset Summary
The Multi-Dimensional Gender Bias Classification dataset is based on a general framework that decomposes gender bias in text along several pragmatic and semantic dimensions: bias from the gender of the person being spoken about, bias from the gender of the person being spoken to, and bias from the gender of the speaker. It contains seven large scale datasets automatically annotated for gender information (there are eight in the original project but the Wikipedia set is not included in the HuggingFace distribution), one crowdsourced evaluation benchmark of utterance-level gender rewrites, a list of gendered names, and a list of gendered words in English.
Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
text-classification-other-gender-bias: The dataset can be used to train a model for classification of various kinds of gender bias. The model performance is evaluated based on the accuracy of the predicted labels as compared to the given labels in the dataset. Dinan et al's (2020) Transformer model achieved an average of 67.13% accuracy in binary gender prediction across the ABOUT, TO, and AS tasks. See the paper for more results.
Languages
The data is in English as spoken on the various sites where the data was collected. The associated BCP-47 code en.
Dataset Structure
Data Instances
The following are examples of data instances from the various configs in the dataset. See the MD Gender Bias dataset viewer to explore more examples.
An example from the new_data config:
{'class_type': 0,
'confidence': 'certain',
'episode_done': True,
'labels': [1],
'original': 'She designed monumental Loviisa war cemetery in 1920',
'text': 'He designed monumental Lovissa War Cemetery in 1920.',
'turker_gender': 4}
An example from the funpedia config:
{'gender': 2,
'persona': 'Humorous',
'text': 'Max Landis is a comic book writer who wrote Chronicle, American Ultra, and Victor Frankestein.',
'title': 'Max Landis'}
An example from the image_chat config:
{'caption': '<start> a young girl is holding a pink umbrella in her hand <eos>',
'female': True,
'id': '2923e28b6f588aff2d469ab2cccfac57',
'male': False}
An example from the wizard config:
{'chosen_topic': 'Krav Maga',
'gender': 2,
'text': 'Hello. I hope you might enjoy or know something about Krav Maga?'}
An example from the convai2_inferred config (the other _inferred configs have the same fields, with the exception of yelp_inferred, which does not have the ternary_label or ternary_score fields):
{'binary_label': 1,
'binary_score': 0.6521999835968018,
'ternary_label': 2,
'ternary_score': 0.4496000111103058,
'text': "hi , how are you doing ? i'm getting ready to do some cheetah chasing to stay in shape ."}
An example from the gendered_words config:
{'word_feminine': 'countrywoman',
'word_masculine': 'countryman'}
An example from the name_genders config:
{'assigned_gender': 1,
'count': 7065,
'name': 'Mary'}
Data Fields
The following are the features for each of the configs.
For the new_data config:
text: the text to be classifiedoriginal: the text before reformulationlabels: alistof classification labels, with possible values includingABOUT:female,ABOUT:male,PARTNER:female,PARTNER:male,SELF:female.class_type: a classification label, with possible values includingabout(0),partner(1),self(2).turker_gender: a classification label, with possible values includingman(0),woman(1),nonbinary(2),prefer not to say(3),no answer(4).episode_done: a boolean indicating whether the conversation was completed.confidence: a string indicating the confidence of the annotator in response to the instance label being ABOUT/TO/AS a man or woman. Possible values arecertain,pretty sure, andunsure.
For the funpedia config:
text: the text to be classified.gender: a classification label, with possible values includinggender-neutral(0),female(1),male(2), indicating the gender of the person being talked about.persona: a string describing the persona assigned to the user when talking about the entity.title: a string naming the entity the text is about.
For the image_chat config:
caption: a string description of the contents of the original image.female: a boolean indicating whether the gender of the person being talked about is female, if the image contains a person.id: a string indicating the id of the image.male: a boolean indicating whether the gender of the person being talked about is male, if the image contains a person.
For the wizard config:
text: the text to be classified.chosen_topic: a string indicating the topic of the text.gender: a classification label, with possible values includinggender-neutral(0),female(1),male(2), indicating the gender of the person being talked about.
For the _inferred configurations (again, except the yelp_inferred split, which does not have the ternary_label or ternary_score fields):
text: the text to be classified.binary_label: a classification label, with possible values includingABOUT:female,ABOUT:male.binary_score: a float indicating a score between 0 and 1.ternary_label: a classification label, with possible values includingABOUT:female,ABOUT:male,ABOUT:gender-neutral.ternary_score: a float indicating a score between 0 and 1.
For the word list:
word_masculine: a string indicating the masculine version of the word.word_feminine: a string indicating the feminine version of the word.
For the gendered name list:
assigned_gender: an integer, 1 for female, 0 for male.count: an integer.name: a string of the name.
Data Splits
The different parts of the data can be accessed through the different configurations:
gendered_words: A list of common nouns with a masculine and feminine variant.new_data: Sentences reformulated and annotated along all three axes.funpedia,wizard: Sentences from Funpedia and Wizards of Wikipedia annotated with ABOUT gender with entity gender information.image_chat: sentences about images annotated with ABOUT gender based on gender information from the entities in the imageconvai2_inferred,light_inferred,opensubtitles_inferred,yelp_inferred: Data from several source datasets with ABOUT annotations inferred by a trined classifier.
| Split | M | F | N | U | Dimension |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image Chat | 39K | 15K | 154K | - | ABOUT |
| Funpedia | 19K | 3K | 1K | - | ABOUT |
| Wizard | 6K | 1K | 1K | - | ABOUT |
| Yelp | 1M | 1M | - | - | AS |
| ConvAI2 | 22K | 22K | - | 86K | AS |
| ConvAI2 | 22K | 22K | - | 86K | TO |
| OpenSub | 149K | 69K | - | 131K | AS |
| OpenSub | 95K | 45K | - | 209K | TO |
| LIGHT | 13K | 8K | - | 83K | AS |
| LIGHT | 13K | 8K | - | 83K | TO |
| ---------- | ---- | --- | ---- | ---- | --------- |
| MDGender | 384 | 401 | - | - | ABOUT |
| MDGender | 396 | 371 | - | - | AS |
| MDGender | 411 | 382 | - | - | TO |
Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
The curators chose to annotate the existing corpora to make their classifiers reliable on all dimensions (ABOUT/TO/AS) and across multiple domains. However, none of the existing datasets cover all three dimensions at the same time, and many of the gender labels are noisy. To enable reliable evaluation, the curators collected a specialized corpus, found in the new_data config, which acts as a gold-labeled dataset for the masculine and feminine classes.
Source Data
Initial Data Collection and Normalization
For the new_data config, the curators collected conversations between two speakers. Each speaker was provided with a persona description containing gender information, then tasked with adopting that persona and having a conversation. They were also provided with small sections of a biography from Wikipedia as the conversation topic in order to encourage crowdworkers to discuss ABOUT/TO/AS gender information. To ensure there is ABOUT/TO/AS gender information contained in each utterance, the curators asked a second set of annotators to rewrite each utterance to make it very clear that they are speaking ABOUT a man or a woman, speaking AS a man or a woman, and speaking TO a man or a woman.
Who are the source language producers?
This dataset was collected from crowdworkers from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. All workers are English-speaking and located in the United States.
| Reported Gender | Percent of Total |
|---|---|
| Man | 67.38 |
| Woman | 18.34 |
| Non-binary | 0.21 |
| Prefer not to say | 14.07 |
Annotations
Annotation process
For the new_data config, annotators were asked to label how confident they are that someone else could predict the given gender label, allowing for flexibility between explicit genderedness (like the use of "he" or "she") and statistical genderedness.
Many of the annotated datasets contain cases where the ABOUT, AS, TO labels are not provided (i.e. unknown). In such instances, the curators apply one of two strategies. They apply the imputation strategy for data for which the ABOUT label is unknown using a classifier trained only on other Wikipedia data for which this label is provided. Data without a TO or AS label was assigned one at random, choosing between masculine and feminine with equal probability. Details of how each of the eight training datasets was annotated are as follows:
Wikipedia- to annotate ABOUT, the curators used a Wikipedia dump and extract biography pages using named entity recognition. They labeled pages with a gender based on the number of gendered pronouns (he vs. she vs. they) and labeled each paragraph in the page with this label for the ABOUT dimension.
Funpedia- Funpedia (Miller et al., 2017) contains rephrased Wikipedia sentences in a more conversational way. The curators retained only biography related sentences and annotate similar to Wikipedia, to give ABOUT labels.
Wizard of Wikipedia- Wizard of Wikipedia contains two people discussing a topic in Wikipedia. The curators retain only the conversations on Wikipedia biographies and annotate to create ABOUT labels.
ImageChat- ImageChat contains conversations discussing the contents of an image. The curators used the Xu et al. image captioning system to identify the contents of an image and select gendered examples.
Yelp- The curators used the Yelp reviewer gender predictor developed by (Subramanian et al., 2018) and retain reviews for which the classifier is very confident – this creates labels for the content creator of the review (AS). They impute ABOUT labels on this dataset using a classifier trained on the datasets 1-4.
ConvAI2- ConvAI2 contains persona-based conversations. Many personas contain sentences such as 'I am a old woman' or 'My name is Bob' which allows annotators to annotate the gender of the speaker (AS) and addressee (TO) with some confidence. Many of the personas have unknown gender. The curators impute ABOUT labels on this dataset using a classifier trained on the datasets 1-4.
OpenSubtitles- OpenSubtitles contains subtitles for movies in different languages. The curators retained English subtitles that contain a character name or identity. They annotated the character’s gender using gender kinship terms such as daughter and gender probability distribution calculated by counting the masculine and feminine names of baby names in the United States. Using the character’s gender, they produced labels for the AS dimension. They produced labels for the TO dimension by taking the gender of the next character to speak if there is another utterance in the conversation; otherwise, they take the gender of the last character to speak. They impute ABOUT labels on this dataset using a classifier trained on the datasets 1-4.
LIGHT- LIGHT contains persona-based conversation. Similarly to ConvAI2, annotators labeled the gender of each persona, giving labels for the speaker (AS) and speaking partner (TO). The curators impute ABOUT labels on this dataset using a classifier trained on the datasets 1-4.
Who are the annotators?
This dataset was annotated by crowdworkers from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. All workers are English-speaking and located in the United States.
Personal and Sensitive Information
For privacy reasons the curators did not associate the self-reported gender of the annotator with the labeled examples in the dataset and only report these statistics in aggregate.
Considerations for Using the Data
Social Impact of Dataset
This dataset is intended for applications such as controlling for gender bias in generative models, detecting gender bias in arbitrary text, and classifying text as offensive based on its genderedness.
Discussion of Biases
Over two thirds of annotators identified as men, which may introduce biases into the dataset.
Wikipedia is also well known to have gender bias in equity of biographical coverage and lexical bias in noun references to women (see the paper's appendix for citations).
Other Known Limitations
The limitations of the Multi-Dimensional Gender Bias Classification dataset have not yet been investigated, but the curators acknowledge that more work is required to address the intersectionality of gender identities, i.e., when gender non-additively interacts with other identity characteristics. The curators point out that negative gender stereotyping is known to be alternatively weakened or reinforced by the presence of social attributes like dialect, class and race and that these differences have been found to affect gender classification in images and sentences encoders. See the paper for references.
Additional Information
Dataset Curators
Emily Dinan, Angela Fan, Ledell Wu, Jason Weston, Douwe Kiela, and Adina Williams at Facebook AI Research. Angela Fan is also affiliated with Laboratoire Lorrain d’Informatique et Applications (LORIA).
Licensing Information
The Multi-Dimensional Gender Bias Classification dataset is licensed under the MIT License.
Citation Information
@inproceedings{dinan-etal-2020-multi,
title = "Multi-Dimensional Gender Bias Classification",
author = "Dinan, Emily and
Fan, Angela and
Wu, Ledell and
Weston, Jason and
Kiela, Douwe and
Williams, Adina",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)",
month = nov,
year = "2020",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.emnlp-main.23",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.23",
pages = "314--331",
abstract = "Machine learning models are trained to find patterns in data. NLP models can inadvertently learn socially undesirable patterns when training on gender biased text. In this work, we propose a novel, general framework that decomposes gender bias in text along several pragmatic and semantic dimensions: bias from the gender of the person being spoken about, bias from the gender of the person being spoken to, and bias from the gender of the speaker. Using this fine-grained framework, we automatically annotate eight large scale datasets with gender information. In addition, we collect a new, crowdsourced evaluation benchmark. Distinguishing between gender bias along multiple dimensions enables us to train better and more fine-grained gender bias classifiers. We show our classifiers are valuable for a variety of applications, like controlling for gender bias in generative models, detecting gender bias in arbitrary text, and classifying text as offensive based on its genderedness.",
}
Contributions
Thanks to @yjernite and @mcmillanmajorafor adding this dataset.