Michal Měchura
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2026
The past and future of Fairslator
Michal Měchura
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT 2026)
Michal Měchura
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT 2026)
Fairslator is a web-based tool for detecting and correcting bias in machine translation. Started in 2022 as a personal project, Fairslator has recently (2026) received backing from University of Vienna where it is going to be redeveloped into an open-source, community-contributed tool for rewriting and computer-assisted postediting of machine translation. This contribution introduces the plan for that redevelopment.
Corpas Náisiúnta Na Gaeilge 2022-2029: A Project Overview
Mícheál J. Ó Meachair | Úna Bhreathnach | Kevin Scannell | Michal Mechura | Brian Ó Raghallaigh | Gearóid Ó Cleircín
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora
Mícheál J. Ó Meachair | Úna Bhreathnach | Kevin Scannell | Michal Mechura | Brian Ó Raghallaigh | Gearóid Ó Cleircín
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora
This paper reports the latest developments, planned works, and issues of the Corpas Náisiúnta na Gaeilge (henceforth: CNG, translation: the National Corpus of Irish) project, detailing the work that has been completed to date, current work, and planned future work. This report details the compilation of corpora, development of a project website and part-speech tagger, the challenges of expanding existing corpora, and the addition of historical and legal corpora. We also present the training and outreach activities of the project.
2022
A Taxonomy of Bias-Causing Ambiguities in Machine Translation
Michal Měchura
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP)
Michal Měchura
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP)
This paper introduces a taxonomy of phenomena which cause bias in machine translation, covering gender bias (people being male and/or female), number bias (singular you versus plural you) and formality bias (informal you versus formal you). Our taxonomy is a formalism for describing situations in machine translation when the source text leaves some of these properties unspecified (eg. does not say whether doctor is male or female) but the target language requires the property to be specified (eg. because it does not have a gender-neutral word for doctor). The formalism described here is used internally by a web-based tool we have built for detecting and correcting bias in the output of any machine translator.