Can Interpretability Layouts Influence Human Perception of Offensive Sentences?

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Main Authors: Santos, Thiago Freitas dos, Osman, Nardine, Schorlemmer, Marco
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author Santos, Thiago Freitas dos
Osman, Nardine
Schorlemmer, Marco
author_facet Santos, Thiago Freitas dos
Osman, Nardine
Schorlemmer, Marco
contents This paper conducts a user study to assess whether three machine learning (ML) interpretability layouts can influence participants' views when evaluating sentences containing hate speech, focusing on the "Misogyny" and "Racism" classes. Given the existence of divergent conclusions in the literature, we provide empirical evidence on using ML interpretability in online communities through statistical and qualitative analyses of questionnaire responses. The Generalized Additive Model estimates participants' ratings, incorporating within-subject and between-subject designs. While our statistical analysis indicates that none of the interpretability layouts significantly influences participants' views, our qualitative analysis demonstrates the advantages of ML interpretability: 1) triggering participants to provide corrective feedback in case of discrepancies between their views and the model, and 2) providing insights to evaluate a model's behavior beyond traditional performance metrics.
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spellingShingle Can Interpretability Layouts Influence Human Perception of Offensive Sentences?
Santos, Thiago Freitas dos
Osman, Nardine
Schorlemmer, Marco
Human-Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
This paper conducts a user study to assess whether three machine learning (ML) interpretability layouts can influence participants' views when evaluating sentences containing hate speech, focusing on the "Misogyny" and "Racism" classes. Given the existence of divergent conclusions in the literature, we provide empirical evidence on using ML interpretability in online communities through statistical and qualitative analyses of questionnaire responses. The Generalized Additive Model estimates participants' ratings, incorporating within-subject and between-subject designs. While our statistical analysis indicates that none of the interpretability layouts significantly influences participants' views, our qualitative analysis demonstrates the advantages of ML interpretability: 1) triggering participants to provide corrective feedback in case of discrepancies between their views and the model, and 2) providing insights to evaluate a model's behavior beyond traditional performance metrics.
title Can Interpretability Layouts Influence Human Perception of Offensive Sentences?
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05581