The Atlantic
Why I’ll Keep Saying ‘Pregnant Women’
9 min read · 2021-10-26 · Being inclusive is important. But it’s not everything.
k-international.com
Cultures Where Men and Women Don’t Speak the Same Language
3 min read · 2021-12-13 · How many times have you heard someone say "Men and women don't speak the same language?" In these 5 cultures, that's actually true!
Le Temps
Et voilà pourquoi l’allemand met le verbe à la fin
6 min read · 2021-11-22 · C’est dans la syntaxe que se joue le choc, jubilatoire, des univers mentaux. La démonstration de Heinz Wismann, philosophe allemand à Paris, auteur de «Penser entre les langues». Dans un français…
detektor.fm
Dear Reader | Antonia Baum über Mutterschaft und das Schreiben
1 min read · 2021-10-23 · Antonia Baum ist nun schon zum zweiten Mal Gast bei "Dear Reader". Dieses Mal spricht sie mit Mascha Jacobs über Sexismus und Mutterschaft.
t3n Magazin
Gendergerechte Ansprache in Werbeanzeigen führt zu besserer Performance, zeigt Test
2 min read · 2021-07-05 · Verbessert die Verwendung von gendergerechter Sprache die Performance von Werbeanzeigen?
Google AI
A Dataset for Studying Gender Bias in Translation
5 min read · 2021-06-24 · Posted by Romina Stella, Product Manager, Google Translate Advances on neural machine translation (NMT) have enabled more natural and flu...
unifr.ch
«La masculinisation de la langue a des conséquences pour toute la société»
7 min read · 2021-06-22 · 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…
AI Papers
[1607.06520] Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings
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?
6 min read · 2021-04-06 · 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
5 min read · 2021-04-01 · 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…)
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
10 min read · 2021-02-26 · 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
