Learning the Peculiar Value of Actions

Dahlmeier, Daniel

doi:10.3115/v1/s14-1008

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“…Most of these papers are based on Moral Foundation Theory, with a few exceptions (see § 4). (van den Broek-Altenburg et al, 2021;Altuntas et al, 2022;Rezapour et al, 2019b;van Luenen, 2020;Rezapour et al, 2019a;Vecerdea, 2021;Lan and Paraboni, 2022;Asprino et al, 2022; Constantinescu, 2021;Arsene, 2021;Dondera, 2021;Huang et al, 2022;Liscio et al, 2022;Pavan et al, 2023;Mokhberian et al, 2020;Teernstra et al, 2016;Johnson and Goldwasser, 2019;Maheshwari et al, 2017;Gloor et al, 2022; Alfano et al, 2018;Dahlmeier, 2014;Kiesel et al, 2022;Johnson and Goldwasser, 2018)…”

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Values, Ethics, Morals? On the Use of Moral Concepts in NLP Research

Vida,

Simon,

Lauscher

2023

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023

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With language technology increasingly affecting individuals' lives, many recent works have investigated the ethical aspects of NLP. Among other topics, researchers focused on the notion of morality, investigating, for example, which moral judgements language models make. However, there has been little to no discussion of the terminology and the theories underpinning those efforts and their implications. This lack is highly problematic, as it hides the works' underlying assumptions and hinders a thorough and targeted scientific debate of morality in NLP. In this work, we address this research gap by (a) providing an overview of some important ethical concepts stemming from philosophy and (b) systematically surveying the existing literature on moral NLP w.r.t. their philosophical foundation, terminology, and data basis. For instance, we analyse what ethical theory an approach is based on, how this decision is justified, and what implications it entails. Our findings surveying 92 papers show that, for instance, most papers neither provide a clear definition of the terms they use nor adhere to definitions from philosophy. Finally, (c) we give three recommendations for future research in the field. We hope our work will lead to a more informed, careful, and sound discussion of morality in language technology. Ion Stagkos Efstathiadis, Guilherme Paulino-Passos, and Francesca Toni. 2022. Explainable patterns for distinction and prediction of moral judgement on reddit. arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.11155.

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