GeFMT: Gender-Fair Language in German Machine Translation

Manuel Lardelli, Anne Lauscher, Giuseppe Attanasio


Abstract
Research on gender bias in Machine Translation (MT) predominantly focuses on binary gender or few languages. In this project, we investigate the ability of commercial MT systems and neural models to translate using gender-fair language (GFL) from English into German. We enrich a community-created GFL dictionary, and sample multi-sentence test instances from encyclopedic text and parliamentary speeches. We translate our resources with different MT systems and open-weights models. We also plan to post-edit biased outputs with professionals and share them publicly. The outcome will constitute a new resource for automatic evaluation and modeling gender-fair EN-DE MT.
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2024.eamt-2.19
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Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (Volume 2)
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June
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2024
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Sheffield, UK
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Carolina Scarton, Charlotte Prescott, Chris Bayliss, Chris Oakley, Joanna Wright, Stuart Wrigley, Xingyi Song, Edward Gow-Smith, Mikel Forcada, Helena Moniz
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EAMT
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European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT)
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37–38
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Manuel Lardelli, Anne Lauscher, and Giuseppe Attanasio. 2024. GeFMT: Gender-Fair Language in German Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (Volume 2), pages 37–38, Sheffield, UK. European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT).
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