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Gendergerechte Ansprache in Werbeanzeigen führt zu besserer Performance, zeigt Test2 min read · Jul 5th · Verbessert die Verwendung von gendergerechter Sprache die Performance von Werbeanzeigen?
Google AI
A Dataset for Studying Gender Bias in Translation5 min read · Jun 24th · Posted by Romina Stella, Product Manager, Google Translate Advances on neural machine translation (NMT) have enabled more natural and flu...
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To help facilitate progress against the common challenges on contextual translation (e.g., pronoun drop, gender agreement and accurate possessives), we are releasing the Translated Wikipedia Biographies dataset, which can be used to evaluate the gender bias of translation models.
Because they are well-written, geographically diverse, contain multiple sentences, and refer to subjects in the third person (and so contain plenty of pronouns), Wikipedia biographies offer a high potential for common translation errors associated with gender.
unifr.ch
«La masculinisation de la langue a des conséquences pour toute la société»7 min read · Jun 22nd · Un livre sur la langue inclusive. Vous ne craignez pas le débat! C’est vrai, le thème est très chaud. Une motion a été récemment déposée au Parlement pour interdire la langue inclusive dans…
aclweb.org
Getting Gender Right in Neural Machine TranslationApr 8th
dl.acm.org
On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? "1F99CApr 8th
AI Papers
[1607.06520] Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings1 min read · From 2017 · (Submitted on 21 Jul 2016) Abstract: The blind application of machine learning runs the risk of amplifying biases present in data. Such a danger is facing us with word embedding, a popular framework…
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Stanford University
Design AI so that it's fair.pdfApr 8th
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403 ForbiddenFrom 2018
Slate
Google Translate: It Already Speaks as Well as a 10-Year-Old. How Good Can it Get?6 min read · Apr 6th · A computer that translates "natural language" is the holy grail of artificial intelligence—language being so integral to our intelligence and to our...
AlgorithmWatch
Automated translation is hopelessly sexist, but don’t blame the algorithm or the training data5 min read · Apr 1st · Automated translation services tend to erase women or reduce them to stereotypes. Simply tweaking the training data or the models is not enough to make translations fair.
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When translating between gender-inflected languages, Google first translates to English, which has few markers of gender
Automated translation engines amplify the biases of their training data sets.
Fast Company
Google Translate’s Gender Problem (And Bing Translate’s, And Systran’s…)5 min read · From 2017 · Google Translate and other popular translation platforms often provide unintentionally sexist translations where, among other things, doctors are men and teachers are women. The reason why has to do…
The Guardian
Words matter: how New Zealand's clear messaging helped beat Covid10 min read · Feb 26th · One year on from the nation’s first case of coronavirus, Aotearoa has largely eliminated the virus - communications played a key part in its success
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de.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Geschlechtergerechte Sprache7 min read · From 2019 · Dieses Meinungsbild befindet sich noch in Vorbereitung, bitte noch nicht abstimmen. Diskussionen zum Thema sind auf der Diskussionsseite erwünscht. Sei mutig und beteilige dich an der Ausarbeitung.
github.com
cleartext-mac/README.md at masterFrom 2016 · cleartext-mac - A text editor that only allows the top 1,000 most common words in English
Apolitical
Why Sweden’s gender neutral pronoun is a model to follow2020-07-02 · Rather than him and her, we should be using hen
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AI Papers
1703.00565.pdf2020-06-25
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