A Scalable Approach to Reducing Gender Bias in Google Translate

Up until recently, the world’s most used translation engine reproduced and reinforced gender bias. «My friend is a doctor» doesn’t specify gender, but when translating to German or Spanish, Google turned the doctor into a man. No more. Here’s how they taught their algorithm to avoid gendered translations.


From Weekly Filet #300, in May 2020.

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