SCOPE

The "Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies Workshop'' (GITT)  is set out to be the first workshop that focuses on gender-inclusive language in translation and cross-lingual scenarios. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse areas, including industry partners, MT practitioners and language professionals. GITT aims to encourage multidisciplinary research that develops and interrogates both solutions and challenges for addressing bias and promoting gender inclusivity in MT and translation tools.  

TOPICS

GITT invites technical as well as non-technical submissions, which consist of experimental, theoretical or methodological contributions. We explicitly welcome interdisciplinary submissions, and submissions that focus on innovative, non-binary linguistic strategies and/or with sociolinguistically-informed perspectives. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Models or methods for assessing and mitigating gender bias

• New resources for inclusive language and gender translation (e.g., datasets, translation memories, dictionaries)

• Social, cross-lingual, and ethical implications of gender bias

• Qualitative and quantitative analyses on the potential limits of current approaches to gender bias in MT, error taxonomies as well as best practices and guidelines

• User-centric case studies on the impact of biased language and/or mitigating approaches, which can include translators, post-editors or monolingual MT users. 

GITT is also open to other non-listed topics aligned with the scope of the workshop and works focusing non-textual modalities (e.g., audiovisual translation).

ACTIVITIES

During the workshop, there will be a guided discussion starting from examples of gender bias in MT output collected via the DeBiasByUs website. Attendees are invited to contribute their own examples beforehand via DeBiasByUs.

More information about the project and the activity can be found here.

IMPORTANT DATES:

• First call for papers: 13th of March 2023

• Second call for papers: 3rd of April 2023

• Submission deadline (23:59 AOE Anywhere on Earth)

  • for papers: 24th of April 2023

  • for extended abstracts and research communications: 3rd of May 2023

• Acceptance notification: 12th of May 2023

• Camera-ready due: 19th of May 2023

• GITT Workshop: 15th of June 2023

ORGANISATION COMMITTEE:

• Eva Vanmassenhove

• Beatrice Savoldi

• Luisa Bentivogli

• Joke Daems

• Janiça Hackenbuchner

QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT:

e.o.j.vanmassenhove@tilburguniversity.edu

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

• Beatrice Spallaccia, University of Bologna

• Bashar Alhafni, New York University

• Christine Basta, Alexandria University

• Declan Groves, Microsoft

• Dagmar Gromann, University of Vienna

• Danielle Saunders, RWS 

• Johanna Monti, L’Orientale University of Naples

• Manuel Lardelli, University of Graz

• Marcely Zanon Boito, NAVER LABS Europe

• Maria Isabel Rivas Ginel, University of Burgundy/University of Valladolid

• ‪Michal Měchura, Masaryk University

• Roberta Pederzoli, University of Bologna

• Toms Bergmanis, University of Latvia