This paper presents the results of an evaluation of Google Translate, DeepL and Bing Microsoft Translator with reference to natural gender translation and provides statistics about the frequency of female, male and neutral forms in the translations of a list of personality adjectives, and nouns referring to professions and bigender nouns. The evaluation is carried out for English→Spanish, English→Italian and English→French.

A Case Study of Natural Gender Phenomena in Translation - A Comparison of Google Translate, Bing Microsoft Translator and DeepL for English to Italian, French and Spanish

Johanna Monti;
2020-01-01

Abstract

This paper presents the results of an evaluation of Google Translate, DeepL and Bing Microsoft Translator with reference to natural gender translation and provides statistics about the frequency of female, male and neutral forms in the translations of a list of personality adjectives, and nouns referring to professions and bigender nouns. The evaluation is carried out for English→Spanish, English→Italian and English→French.
2020
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AA.VV
J. Monti, F. Dell'Orletta, F. Tamburini
CLiC-it 2020 Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics Proceedings of the Seventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
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CLiC-it 2020 Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
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979-12-80136-28-2
https://www.aaccademia.it/scheda-libro?aaref=1426
AILC - Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale
Trento
ITALIA
Esperti anonimi
March 1-3, 2021
Bologna
Internazionale
Google Translate, DeepL, Bing Microsoft Translator, gender translation
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Anna Rescigno, Argentina; Vanmassenhove, Eva; Monti, Johanna; Way, Andy
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