Mitigating Extrinsic Gender Bias for Bangla Classification Tasks

arXiv:2411.10636v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this study, we investigate extrinsic gender bias in Bangla pretrained language models, a largely underexplored area in low-resource languages. To assess this bias, we construct four manually annotated, task-specific benchmark datasets for sentiment analysis, toxicity detection, hate speech detection, and sarcasm detection. Each dataset is augmented using nuanced gender perturbations, where we systematically swap gendered names and term