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title = "Analyzing Gender Translation Errors to Identify Information Flows between the Encoder and Decoder of a {NMT} System",
author = "Wisniewski, Guillaume and
Zhu, Lichao and
Ballier, Nicolas and
Yvon, Fran{\c{c}}ois",
editor = "Bastings, Jasmijn and
Belinkov, Yonatan and
Elazar, Yanai and
Hupkes, Dieuwke and
Saphra, Naomi and
Wiegreffe, Sarah",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP",
month = dec,
year = "2022",
address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.blackboxnlp-1.13",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.blackboxnlp-1.13",
pages = "153--163",
abstract = "Multiple studies have shown that existing NMT systems demonstrate some kind of {``}gender bias{''}. As a result, MT output appears to err more often for feminine forms and to amplify social gender misrepresentations, which is potentially harmful to users and practioners of these technologies. This paper continues this line of investigations and reports results obtained with a new test set in strictly controlled conditions. This setting allows us to better understand the multiple inner mechanisms that are causing these biases, which include the linguistic expressions of gender, the unbalanced distribution of masculine and feminine forms in the language, the modelling of morphological variation and the training process dynamics. To counterbalance these effects, we formulate several proposals and notably show that modifying the training loss can effectively mitigate such biases.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Analyzing Gender Translation Errors to Identify Information Flows between the Encoder and Decoder of a NMT System
%A Wisniewski, Guillaume
%A Zhu, Lichao
%A Ballier, Nicolas
%A Yvon, François
%Y Bastings, Jasmijn
%Y Belinkov, Yonatan
%Y Elazar, Yanai
%Y Hupkes, Dieuwke
%Y Saphra, Naomi
%Y Wiegreffe, Sarah
%S Proceedings of the Fifth BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP
%D 2022
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)
%F wisniewski-etal-2022-analyzing
%X Multiple studies have shown that existing NMT systems demonstrate some kind of “gender bias”. As a result, MT output appears to err more often for feminine forms and to amplify social gender misrepresentations, which is potentially harmful to users and practioners of these technologies. This paper continues this line of investigations and reports results obtained with a new test set in strictly controlled conditions. This setting allows us to better understand the multiple inner mechanisms that are causing these biases, which include the linguistic expressions of gender, the unbalanced distribution of masculine and feminine forms in the language, the modelling of morphological variation and the training process dynamics. To counterbalance these effects, we formulate several proposals and notably show that modifying the training loss can effectively mitigate such biases.
%R 10.18653/v1/2022.blackboxnlp-1.13
%U https://aclanthology.org/2022.blackboxnlp-1.13
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.blackboxnlp-1.13
%P 153-163
Markdown (Informal)
[Analyzing Gender Translation Errors to Identify Information Flows between the Encoder and Decoder of a NMT System](https://aclanthology.org/2022.blackboxnlp-1.13) (Wisniewski et al., BlackboxNLP 2022)
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