arXiv:2511.10846cs.CLcs.AI2025-11被引 4

情绪识别模型对非裔美式英语误判为愤怒,加剧种族偏见。

Reinforcing Stereotypes of Anger: Emotion AI on African American Vernacular English

  • 用计算方法识别推文中的非裔美式英语特征,对比情绪判断差异。
  • 模型对非裔美式英语的愤怒误判率是通用美式英语的两倍以上。
  • 建议引入族内标注者,构建文化敏感的情绪计算系统。

自动情绪检测广泛应用于心理健康与招聘等高风险领域,但模型多依赖主流文化标注数据,难以识别非裔美式英语(AAVE)中真实情绪表达。本研究分析270万条洛杉矶地理标记推文,通过计算近似方言特征量化AAVE强度。从875条高低AAVE密度推文中收集情绪存在与强度标注。为评估主观性极强的情绪感知,采用族内(非裔、精通AAVE)标注生成“银标准”标签。结果显示,基于GPT和BERT的模型在AAVE上愤怒误报率是通用美式英语(GAE)的两倍以上;流行文本情绪模型SpanEmo在AAVE上的愤怒误报率从GAE的25%升至60%。线性回归表明,模型及非族内标注者与含粗俗语的AAVE特征显著相关,而族内标注者则不显著。结合人口普查区数据发现,非裔居民比例高的街区,情绪模型预测愤怒值更高(皮尔逊相关系数r=0.27),喜悦值更低(r=-0.10)。结果揭示情绪AI可能通过偏差分类强化种族刻板印象,亟需发展文化与方言敏感的情感计算系统。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Automated emotion detection is widely used in applications ranging from well-being monitoring to high-stakes domains like mental health and hiring. However, models often rely on annotations that reflect dominant cultural norms, limiting model ability to recognize emotional expression in dialects often excluded from training data distributions, such as African American Vernacular English (AAVE). This study examines emotion recognition model performance on AAVE compared to General American English (GAE). We analyze 2.7 million tweets geo-tagged within Los Angeles. Texts are scored for strength of AAVE using computational approximations of dialect features. Annotations of emotion presence and intensity are collected on a dataset of 875 tweets with both high and low AAVE densities. To assess model accuracy on a task as subjective as emotion perception, we calculate community-informed "silver" labels where AAVE-dense tweets are labeled by African American, AAVE-fluent (ingroup) annotators. On our labeled sample, GPT and BERT-based models exhibit false positive prediction rates of anger on AAVE more than double than on GAE. SpanEmo, a popular text-based emotion model, increases false positive rates of anger from 25 percent on GAE to 60 percent on AAVE. Additionally, a series of linear regressions reveals that models and non-ingroup annotations are significantly more correlated with profanity-based AAVE features than ingroup annotations. Linking Census tract demographics, we observe that neighborhoods with higher proportions of African American residents are associated with higher predictions of anger (Pearson's correlation r = 0.27) and lower joy (r = -0.10). These results find an emergent safety issue of emotion AI reinforcing racial stereotypes through biased emotion classification. We emphasize the need for culturally and dialect-informed affective computing systems.

情绪识别种族偏见方言识别AI伦理

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