Piergentili et al. (2023): From Inclusive Language to Gender-Neutral Machine Translation
Abstract Gender inclusivity in language technologies has become a prominent research topic. In this study, we explore gender-neutral translation (GNT) as a form of gender inclusivity and a goal to be achieved by machine translation (MT) models, which have been found to perpetuate gender bias and discrimination. Specifically, we focus on translation from English into Italian, a language pair representative of salient gender-related linguistic transfer problems. To define GNT, we review a selection of relevant institutional guidelines for gender-inclusive language, discuss its scenarios of use, and examine the technical challenges of performing GNT in MT, concluding with a discussion of potential solutions to encourage advancements toward greater inclusivity in MT.Click here to access the article.
Citation Piergentili, A.; Fucci, D.; Savoldi, B.; Bentivogli, L.; Negri, M.; (2023): From Inclusive Language to Gender-Neutral Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies: 71–83. European Association for Machine Translation.