English

User-Centric Gender Rewriting

Computation and Language 2022-05-05 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we define the task of gender rewriting in contexts involving two users (I and/or You) - first and second grammatical persons with independent grammatical gender preferences. We focus on Arabic, a gender-marking morphologically rich language. We develop a multi-step system that combines the positive aspects of both rule-based and neural rewriting models. Our results successfully demonstrate the viability of this approach on a recently created corpus for Arabic gender rewriting, achieving 88.42 M2 F0.5 on a blind test set. Our proposed system improves over previous work on the first-person-only version of this task, by 3.05 absolute increase in M2 F0.5. We demonstrate a use case of our gender rewriting system by using it to post-edit the output of a commercial MT system to provide personalized outputs based on the users' grammatical gender preferences. We make our code, data, and models publicly available.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2205.02211,
  title  = {User-Centric Gender Rewriting},
  author = {Bashar Alhafni and Nizar Habash and Houda Bouamor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.02211},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Accepted at NAACL 2022

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