Abstract
What ethical concerns, if any, do LLM researchers have? We introduce EthiCon, a corpus of 1,580 ethical concern statements extracted from scientific papers published in the ACL Anthology. We extract ethical concern keywords from the statements and show promising results in automating the concern identification process. Through a survey (N = 200), we compare the ethical concerns of the corpus to the concerns listed by the general public and professionals in the field. Finally, we compare our retrieved ethical concerns with existing taxonomies and guidelines pointing to gaps and actionable insights.
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Karamolegkou, A., Hansen, S. S., Christopoulou, A., Stamatiou, F., Lauscher, A., & Søgaard, A. (2025). Ethical Concern Identification in NLP: A Corpus of ACL Anthology Ethics Statements. In Proceedings of the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Long Papers, NAACL-HLT 2025 (Vol. 1, pp. 11618–11635). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-long.580
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