Introduction. Hal Daumé wrote an interesting blog post about language bias and the black sheep problem. In the post, he defines the problem as follows: The ”black sheep problem” is that if you were to try to guess what color most sheep were by looking and language data, it would be very difficult for you to conclude that […]
Avainsana: human bias
This is a brief post describing a key problem in using fact-checking sites as inputs to filter undesirable content (e.g., fake news) from social media newsfeeds (e.g., Facebook). The premise sounds good, right? We use human raters to verify truthfulness of an article, and use that information as part of the decision-making algorithm. However, there […]