A Novel Method for Analysing Racial Bias: Appendix: Hyperparameter Sensitivity

Written by escholar | Published 2024/05/14
Tech Story Tags: natural-language-processing | analysing-racial-bias | time-adjusted-toxicity | semantic-axes | socio-political-changes | google-ngrams-data | sentiment-analysis | bias-in-literature

TLDRIn this study, researchers propose a novel method to analyze representations of African Americans and White Americans in books between 1850 to 2000.via the TL;DR App

This paper is available on arxiv under CC 4.0 license.

Authors:

(1) Muhammed Yusuf Kocyigit, Boston University;

(2) Anietie Andy, University of Pennsylvania;

(3) Derry Wijaya, Boston University.

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Appendix: Hyperparameter Sensitivity

We conduct our experiments with an array of hyperparameters to observe the effects of the sampling size and the negative sampling ration and observe that the results are relatively stable. Below are the results for k=[500K, 1M] and n=[1,4,10,20]


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