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).

PANEL DISCUSSION

At the end of the workshop, there will be a panel discussion. Details coming soon.

IMPORTANT DATES:

• First call for papers: 4th of March 2024

• Second call for papers: 25th of March 2024

• Submission deadline (23:59 AOE Anywhere on Earth)

  • for papers: 15th of April 2024

  • EXTENDED 22nd of April 2024

• Acceptance notification: 15th of May 2024

• Camera-ready due: 24th of May 2024

• GITT Workshop: 27th of June 2024

ORGANISATION COMMITTEE:

• Beatrice Savoldi

• Janiça Hackenbuchner

• Luisa Bentivogli

• Joke Daems

• Eva Vanmassenhove

• Jasmijn Bastings

QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT:

gitt-workshop-organizers@googlegroups.com

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

• Bashar Alhafni, New York University

• Christine Basta, Alexandria University

• Anna Currey, Amazon Web Services

• Nizar Habash, New York University Abu Dhabi

• Dennis Fucci, Fondazione Bruno Kessler

• Michal Mechura, Dublin City University ˇ

• Ranjita Naik, Microsoft

• Jan Niehues, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

• Danielle Saunders, RWS Language Weaver

• Pushpdeep Singh, TCS Research

• Gabriel Stanovsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Eric Peter Wairagala, Makerere University

• Matúš Pikuliak, Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies

• Remy Attig, Bowling Green State University

• Andrea Piergentili, Fondazione Bruno Kessler

• Manuel Lardelli, University of Graz

• Johanna Monti, L'Orientale University of Naples

• Roberta Pederzoli, University of Bologna

• Hannah Devinney, Umeå University

• María Isabel Rivas Ginel, Dublin City University

• Beatrice Spallaccia, University of Bologna

• Adina Williams, Meta AI

• Guillaume Wisniewski, Université de Paris

• Giuseppe Attanasio,  Instituto de Telecomunicações