Savoldi et al. (2021): Gender Bias in Machine Translation
Abstract Machine translation (MT) technology has facilitated our daily tasks by providing accessible shortcuts for gathering, processing, and communicating information. However, it can suffer from biases that harm users and society at large. As a relatively new field of inquiry, studies of gender bias in MT still lack cohesion. This advocates for a unified framework to ease future research. To this end, we: i) critically review current conceptualizations of bias in light of theoretical insights from related disciplines, ii) summarize previous analyses aimed at assessing gender bias in MT, iii) discuss the mitigating strategies proposed so far, and iv) point toward potential directions for future work.Click here to access the article.
Citation Savoldi, B.; Gaido, M.; Bentivogli, L.; Negri, M.; Turchi, M. (2021): Gender bias in machine translation. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 9: 845–874.