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Quality Estimation (QE) aims to assess machine translation quality without reference translations, but recent studies have shown that existing QE models exhibit systematic gender bias. In particular, they tend to favor masculine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Jinhee Jang , Juhwan Choi , Dongjin Lee , Seunguk Yu , Youngbin Kim

The presence of social biases in large language models (LLMs) has become a significant concern in AI research. These biases, often embedded in training data, can perpetuate harmful stereotypes and distort decision-making processes. When…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Amirabbas Afzali , Amirreza Velae , Iman Ahmadi , Mohammad Aliannejadi

Masked language models pick up gender biases during pre-training. Such biases are usually attributed to a certain model architecture and its pre-training corpora, with the implicit assumption that other variations in the pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Kenan Tang , Hanchun Jiang

Recent research has demonstrated that vector space models of semantics can reflect undesirable biases in human culture. Our investigation of crosslinguistic word embeddings reveals that topical gender bias interacts with, and is surpassed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Katherine McCurdy , Oguz Serbetci

Multilingual pretraining and fine-tuning have remarkably succeeded in various natural language processing tasks. Transferring representations from one language to another is especially crucial for cross-lingual learning. One can expect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Shaoxiong Ji , Timothee Mickus , Vincent Segonne , Jörg Tiedemann

Converging societal and technical factors have transformed language technologies into user-facing applications used by the general public across languages. Machine Translation (MT) has become a global tool, with cross-lingual services now…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Beatrice Savoldi , Alan Ramponi , Matteo Negri , Luisa Bentivogli

Gender contains a wide range of information regarding to the characteristics difference between male and female. Successful gender recognition is essential and critical for many applications in the commercial domains such as applications of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-03-17 Yingxiao Wu , Yan Zhuang , Xi Long , Feng Lin , Wenyao Xu

The field of machine translation has progressed tremendously in recent years. Even though the translation quality has improved significantly, current systems are still unable to produce uniformly acceptable machine translations for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Meng Zhang , Xin Jiang , Yang Liu , Qun Liu

One of the difficulties of artificial intelligence is to ensure that model decisions are fair and free of bias. In research, datasets, metrics, techniques, and tools are applied to detect and mitigate algorithmic unfairness and bias. This…

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has introduced AI agents as a disruptive paradigm across various industries, yet their application in machine translation (MT) remains underexplored. This paper describes and analyses the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Vicent Briva-Iglesias

Rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) and similar automated approaches for translation tasks is increasingly affecting the landscape of translation technologies. As concerns about the outsourcing of translator work to these…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Daniel Chechelnitsky , Sireesh Gururaja , Seyi Olojo , Wesley Hanwen Deng , Giuseppe Attanasio , Chrysoula Zerva , Maarten Sap

This thesis argues that the currently widely used Natural Language Processing algorithms possibly have various limitations related to the properties of the texts they handle and produce. With the wide adoption of these tools in rapid…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Josef Jon

Pretrained machine learning models are known to perpetuate and even amplify existing biases in data, which can result in unfair outcomes that ultimately impact user experience. Therefore, it is crucial to understand the mechanisms behind…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Laura Cabello , Emanuele Bugliarello , Stephanie Brandl , Desmond Elliott

As machine translation (MT) systems progress at a rapid pace, questions of their adequacy linger. In this study we focus on negation, a universal, core property of human language that significantly affects the semantics of an utterance. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Md Mosharaf Hossain , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Eduardo Blanco , Alexis Palmer

Large language models (LLMs) and machine translation (MT) systems are increasingly used in our daily lives, but their outputs can reproduce gender bias present in the training data. Most resources for evaluating such biases are designed for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Amaia Murillo , Olatz-Perez-de-Viñaspre , Naiara Perez

LLMs have emerged as a promising tool for assisting individuals in diverse text-generation tasks, including job-related texts. However, LLM-generated answers have been increasingly found to exhibit gender bias. This study evaluates three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Haein Kong , Yongsu Ahn , Sangyub Lee , Yunho Maeng

Machine learning algorithms are optimized to model statistical properties of the training data. If the input data reflects stereotypes and biases of the broader society, then the output of the learning algorithm also captures these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Tolga Bolukbasi , Kai-Wei Chang , James Zou , Venkatesh Saligrama , Adam Kalai

With the widespread and pervasive use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for automated decision-making systems, AI bias is becoming more apparent and problematic. One of its negative consequences is discrimination: the unfair, or unequal…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Xavier Ferrer , Tom van Nuenen , Jose M. Such , Mark Coté , Natalia Criado

As a result of the rapid changes in information and communication technology (ICT), the world has become a small village where people from all over the world connect with each other in dialogue and communication via the Internet. Also,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Nabeel T. Alsohybe , Neama Abdulaziz Dahan , Fadl Mutaher Ba-Alwi

The quality of machine translation has increased remarkably over the past years, to the degree that it was found to be indistinguishable from professional human translation in a number of empirical investigations. We reassess Hassan et…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Samuel Läubli , Sheila Castilho , Graham Neubig , Rico Sennrich , Qinlan Shen , Antonio Toral