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Neural Machine Translation (NMT) continues to improve in quality and adoption, yet the inadvertent perpetuation of gender bias remains a significant concern. Despite numerous studies on gender bias in translations into English from weakly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Spencer Rarrick , Ranjita Naik , Sundar Poudel , Vishal Chowdhary

Transformer based models are the modern work horses for neural machine translation (NMT), reaching state of the art across several benchmarks. Despite their impressive accuracy, we observe a systemic and rudimentary class of errors made by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Adithya Renduchintala , Adina Williams

Human gender bias is reflected in language and text production. Because state-of-the-art machine translation (MT) systems are trained on large corpora of text, mostly generated by humans, gender bias can also be found in MT. For instance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Jonas-Dario Troles , Ute Schmid

Although recent years have brought significant progress in improving translation of unambiguously gendered sentences, translation of ambiguously gendered input remains relatively unexplored. When source gender is ambiguous, machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Spencer Rarrick , Ranjita Naik , Varun Mathur , Sundar Poudel , Vishal Chowdhary

While Large Language Models achieve state-of-the-art results across a wide range of NLP tasks, they remain prone to systematic biases. Among these, gender bias is particularly salient in MT, due to systematic differences across languages in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Chiara Manna , Hosein Mohebbi , Afra Alishahi , Frédéric Blain , Eva Vanmassenhove

The evolution of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has been significantly influenced by six core challenges (Koehn and Knowles, 2017), which have acted as benchmarks for progress in this field. This study revisits these challenges, offering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Jianhui Pang , Fanghua Ye , Longyue Wang , Dian Yu , Derek F. Wong , Shuming Shi , Zhaopeng Tu

This paper discusses the methods that we used for our submissions to the WMT 2023 Terminology Shared Task for German-to-English (DE-EN), English-to-Czech (EN-CS), and Chinese-to-English (ZH-EN) language pairs. The task aims to advance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yasmin Moslem , Gianfranco Romani , Mahdi Molaei , Rejwanul Haque , John D. Kelleher , Andy Way

Gender bias in artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing has garnered significant attention due to its potential impact on societal perceptions and biases. This research paper aims to analyze gender bias in Large Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Vishesh Thakur

This paper is a collaborative effort between Linguistics, Law, and Computer Science to evaluate stereotypes and biases in automated translation systems. We advocate gender-neutral translation as a means to promote gender inclusion and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Fatemeh Mohammadi , Marta Annamaria Tamborini , Paolo Ceravolo , Costanza Nardocci , Samira Maghool

We present the first challenge set and evaluation protocol for the analysis of gender bias in machine translation (MT). Our approach uses two recent coreference resolution datasets composed of English sentences which cast participants into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Gabriel Stanovsky , Noah A. Smith , Luke Zettlemoyer

We introduce MT-LENS, a framework designed to evaluate Machine Translation (MT) systems across a variety of tasks, including translation quality, gender bias detection, added toxicity, and robustness to misspellings. While several toolkits…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Javier García Gilabert , Carlos Escolano , Audrey Mash , Xixian Liao , Maite Melero

In machine translation, the problem of ambiguously gendered input has been pointed out, where the gender of an entity is not available in the source sentence. To address this ambiguity issue, the task of controlled translation that takes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Minwoo Lee , Hyukhun Koh , Minsung Kim , Kyomin Jung

Neural machine translation (NMT) models often suffer from gender biases that harm users and society at large. In this work, we explore how bridging the gap between languages for which parallel data is not available affects gender bias in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Lena Cabrera , Jan Niehues

Implicit gender bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) is a well-documented problem, and implications of gender introduced into automatic translations can perpetuate real-world biases. However, some LLMs use heuristics or post-processing to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Peter J Barclay , Ashkan Sami

Machine Translation (MT) has greatly advanced over the years due to the developments in deep neural networks. However, the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and ChatGPT is introducing a new phase in the MT domain. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Chenyang Lyu , Zefeng Du , Jitao Xu , Yitao Duan , Minghao Wu , Teresa Lynn , Alham Fikri Aji , Derek F. Wong , Siyou Liu , Longyue Wang

Neural machine translation has significantly pushed forward the quality of the field. However, there are remaining big issues with the output translations and one of them is fairness. Neural models are trained on large text corpora which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Joel Escudé Font , Marta R. Costa-jussà

Gender-neutral translation (GNT) that avoids biased and undue binary assumptions is a pivotal challenge for the creation of more inclusive translation technologies. Advancements for this task in Machine Translation (MT), however, are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Beatrice Savoldi , Andrea Piergentili , Dennis Fucci , Matteo Negri , Luisa Bentivogli

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

Large Language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have gained popularity in recent years with the advancement of Natural Language Processing (NLP), with use cases spanning many disciplines and daily lives as well. LLMs inherit explicit and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Fatima Kazi

Languages differ in terms of the absence or presence of gender features, the number of gender classes and whether and where gender features are explicitly marked. These cross-linguistic differences can lead to ambiguities that are difficult…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Eva Vanmassenhove , Johanna Monti