Slate
Google Translate: It Already Speaks as Well as a 10-Year-Old. How Good Can it Get?
6 min · · A computer that translates "natural language" is the holy grail of artificial intelligence—language being so integral to our intelligence and to our... · Shared by 4, including Marie-José Kolly
AlgorithmWatch
Automated translation is hopelessly sexist, but don’t blame the algorithm or the training data
5 min · · 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. · Shared by 109, including Marie-José Kolly, Nicolas Kayser-Bril does not use Twіtter., Dorothea Baur (Dr.)
Fast Company
Google Translate’s Gender Problem (And Bing Translate’s, And Systran’s…)
5 min · · 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… · Shared by 6, including Marie-José Kolly
The Guardian
Words matter: how New Zealand's clear messaging helped beat Covid
10 min · · 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 · Shared by 35, including @grzewap@mastodon.social, luis antónio santos, Marie-José Kolly
de.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Geschlechtergerechte Sprache
7 min · · 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. · Shared by 9, including Marie-José Kolly
github.com
cleartext-mac/README.md at master
· cleartext-mac - A text editor that only allows the top 1,000 most common words in English · Shared by 20, including Marie-José Kolly, Oliver Fuchs, Brian
Apolitical
Why Sweden’s gender neutral pronoun is a model to follow
· Rather than him and her, we should be using hen · Shared by 36, including Marie-José Kolly, Peter Yeung
AI Papers
StereoSet: Measuring stereotypical bias in pretrained language models
1 min · · 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… · Shared by 4, including Marie-José Kolly
Google AI
A Scalable Approach to Reducing Gender Bias in Google Translate
4 min · · Posted by Melvin Johnson, Senior Software Engineer, Google Research Machine learning (ML) models for language translation can be skewed ... · Shared by 109, including Marie-José Kolly, Joanna J Bryson, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, John Mueller (official) · Not #30D, Aamir Raz, Mike Tamir, PhD, Bob E. Hayes