SCOPE

The "Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies Workshop'' (GITT)  is the only dedicated 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, including LLM applications for the translation task. 

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).

IMPORTANT DATES:

Call for Papers:

• 1st call for papers: 19 December 2024

• 2nd call for papers: 27 January 2025

• 3rd call for paper: 20 February 2025

Submission:

• Submission deadline: 10 March, 2025

• NEW Submission deadline: 16 March 2025 (23:59 AOE)

• FINAL Submission deadline: 31 March 2025 (23:59 AOE)

Review Notifications:

• Acceptance notification: 7 April 2025

• Camera-ready due: 21 April 2025

• GITT Workshop: 23 June 2025

ORGANISATION COMMITTEE:

• Janiça Hackenbuchner

• Luisa Bentivogli

• Joke Daems

• Chiara Manna

• Beatrice Savoldi

• Eva Vanmassenhove

QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT:

gitt-workshop-organizers@googlegroups.com

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

• Giuseppe Attanasio, Instituto Técnico Lisbon

• Katherine Atwell, Northeastern University

• Christine Basta, Alexandria University 

• Jasmijn Bastings, Google Deepmind

• Toms Bergmanis, University of Latvia

• Anna Currey, Amazon Web Services

• Hannah Devinney, Umea University

• Dennis Fucci, Fondazione Bruno Kessler

• Dagmar Gromann, University of Vienna

• Nizar Habash, New York University Abu Dhabi

• Manuel Lardelli, University of Graz

• Michal Měchura, Dublin City University

• Johanna Monti, L'Orientale University of Naples

• Ranjita Naik, Microsoft

• Jan Niehues, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

• Andrea Piergentili, Fondazione Bruno Kessler

• Matúš Pikuliak, Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies

• Maja Popovic, ADAPT Centre

• Isabel Rivas, Dublin City University

• Kevin Robinson, Google Research

• Danielle Saunders, DeepL

• Pushpdeep Singh, TCS Research 

• Karolina Stańczak, Univeristy of Copenhagen

• Eric Peter Wairagala, Makerere University

• Kellie Webster, Google Research

• Guillaume Wisniewski, Université Paris Cité