2023
What about “em”? How Commercial Machine Translation Fails to Handle (Neo-)Pronouns
ACL 2023long
As 3rd-person pronoun usage shifts to include novel forms, e.g., neopronouns, we need more research on identity-inclusive NLP. Exclusion is particularly harmful in one of the most popular NLP applications, machine translation (MT). Wrong pronoun translations can discriminate against marginalized gro…