Automated Ableism: An Exploration of Explicit Disability Biases in Sentiment and Toxicity Analysis Models

We analyze sentiment analysis and toxicity detection models to detect the presence of explicit bias against people with disability (PWD). We employ the bias identification framework of Perturbation Sensitivity Analysis to examine conversations related to PWD on social media platforms, specifically T...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2023-07
Main Authors: Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Srinath, Mukund, Wilson, Shomir
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bias
Cloud computing
Data mining
Perturbation
Sensitivity analysis
Sentiment analysis
Toxicity
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Summary:We analyze sentiment analysis and toxicity detection models to detect the presence of explicit bias against people with disability (PWD). We employ the bias identification framework of Perturbation Sensitivity Analysis to examine conversations related to PWD on social media platforms, specifically Twitter and Reddit, in order to gain insight into how disability bias is disseminated in real-world social settings. We then create the \textit{Bias Identification Test in Sentiment} (BITS) corpus to quantify explicit disability bias in any sentiment analysis and toxicity detection models. Our study utilizes BITS to uncover significant biases in four open AIaaS (AI as a Service) sentiment analysis tools, namely TextBlob, VADER, Google Cloud Natural Language API, DistilBERT and two toxicity detection models, namely two versions of Toxic-BERT. Our findings indicate that all of these models exhibit statistically significant explicit bias against PWD.
ISSN:2331-8422