GeBioToolkit: Automatic Extraction of Gender-Balanced Multilingual Corpus of Wikipedia Biographies

Marta R. Costa-jussà, Pau Li Lin, Cristina España-Bonet


Abstract
We introduce GeBioToolkit, a tool for extracting multilingual parallel corpora at sentence level, with document and gender information from Wikipedia biographies. Despite the gender inequalities present in Wikipedia, the toolkit has been designed to extract corpus balanced in gender. While our toolkit is customizable to any number of languages (and different domains), in this work we present a corpus of 2,000 sentences in English, Spanish and Catalan, which has been post-edited by native speakers to become a high-quality dataset for machine translation evaluation. While GeBioCorpus aims at being one of the first non-synthetic gender-balanced test datasets, GeBioToolkit aims at paving the path to standardize procedures to produce gender-balanced datasets.
Anthology ID:
2020.lrec-1.502
Volume:
Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2020
Address:
Marseille, France
Editors:
Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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Publisher:
European Language Resources Association
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Pages:
4081–4088
Language:
English
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.502
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Cite (ACL):
Marta R. Costa-jussà, Pau Li Lin, and Cristina España-Bonet. 2020. GeBioToolkit: Automatic Extraction of Gender-Balanced Multilingual Corpus of Wikipedia Biographies. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 4081–4088, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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GeBioToolkit: Automatic Extraction of Gender-Balanced Multilingual Corpus of Wikipedia Biographies (Costa-jussà et al., LREC 2020)
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.502.pdf
Code
 PLXIV/Gebiotoolkit
Data
GeBioCorpusWikiMatrix