Dear MT enthusiasts interested in MT gender bias, We are collecting crowdsourced instances of gender bias (all language pairs) in MT via DeBiasByUs (https://debiasbyus.ugent.be/). The dataset is publicly available for download, and anyone can contribute - it's a community-driven platform!
You can add real-world examples of gender bias directly to the platform (via the Share page), or you can install the BiasShield plugin (https://www.biasshield.org/ developed in corporation with Fairslator https://www.fairslator.com/) to upload cases of gender bias when using Google Translate or DeepL in Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. DeBiasByUs serves the dual purpose of raising public awareness of and informing about the issue of gender bias in MT and of creating a database of real-world examples of gender bias in commercial MT systems. By gathering and examining these examples, we aim to achieve a better understanding of the various ways in which gender bias can manifest itself in translation and eventually help us explore ways to mitigate these biases. The focus here is that DeBiasByUs is a community-driven platform, so we encourage you to add real-world examples of gender bias for your language combinations, and to widely share the website and plugin with your network. The more active users there are, the more meaningful the collected data will become. Any questions or concerns you have, please post to our forum (https://debiasbyus.ugent.be/forum/). We are looking forward to discussing examples from the DeBiasByUs database during the 1st International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive TranslationTechnologies (GITT) (https://sites.google.com/tilburguniversity.edu/gitt2023/home?authuser=0) at EAMT 2023 in Tampere next week. Happy adding! Best wishes, The DeBiasByUs team (Janiça Hackenbuchner and Joke Daems) ------------------------------ Joke Daems (they/them) Assistant Professor Human-Computer Interaction EQTIS, Empirical and Quantitative Translation and Interpreting Studies LT³, Language and Translation Technology Team Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication https://research.flw.ugent.be/en/joke.daems
