The Women Who Code Podcast
Career Nav #41 Sarah Masud - Biases That Exist in Toxicity Detection Systems Developed for the Web
April 17, 2023
Sarah Masud, PhD student and member at Laboratory for Computational Social Systems, shares her talk, “Biases That Exist in Toxicity Detection Systems Developed for the Web.” She talks about bias and the intersection of gender bias, as well as racial bias. She discusses ways that communities can be harmed if there isn’t knowledge of cultural groups, slurs, and context of the terms being examined for hate speech.
Guest: Sarah Masud, Doctoral Student, Laboratory for Computational Social Systems, IIIT-Delhi
LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/sarahmasud
Twitter: https://twitter.com/_themessier
Survey Paper: Handling Bias in Toxic Speech Detection: A Survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.00126

Episode: https://www.womenwhocode.com/blog/career-nav-41-biases-that-exist-in-toxicity-detection-systems-for-the-web
Video: https://youtu.be/Szwn4zUqJDs
Producer: JL Lewitin, Senior Producer, WWCode
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-lewitin/