On language
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Collection by Marie-José Kolly
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dl.acm.org
AI Papers
[1607.06520] Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings
AI Papers
1 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…
Slate
Google Translate: It Already Speaks as Well as a 10-Year-Old. How Good Can it Get?
Slate
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 data
AlgorithmWatch
5 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.
Fast Company
Google Translate’s Gender Problem (And Bing Translate’s, And Systran’s…)
Fast Company
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 Covid
The Guardian
10 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
de.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Geschlechtergerechte Sprache
de.wikipedia.org
7 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 master
github.com
From 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 follow
Apolitical
2020-07-02 · Rather than him and her, we should be using hen
AI Papers
StereoSet: Measuring stereotypical bias in pretrained language models
AI Papers
1 min read · 2020-06-17 · A stereotype is an over-generalized belief about a particular group of people, e.g., Asians are good at math or Asians are bad drivers. Such beliefs (biases) are known to hurt target groups. Since…
Google AI
A Scalable Approach to Reducing Gender Bias in Google Translate
Google AI
4 min read · 2020-04-22 · Posted by Melvin Johnson, Senior Software Engineer, Google Research Machine learning (ML) models for language translation can be skewed ...
