NeuTral Rewriter: A Rule-Based and Neural Approach to Automatic Rewriting into Gender-Neutral Alternatives

Eva Vanmassenhove; Chris Emmery; Dimitar Shterionov

doi:10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.704

NeuTral Rewriter: A Rule-Based and Neural Approach to Automatic Rewriting into Gender-Neutral Alternatives

Eva Vanmassenhove, Chris Emmery, Dimitar Shterionov

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Recent years have seen an increasing need for gender-neutral and inclusive language. Within the field of NLP, there are various mono- and bilingual use cases where gender inclusive language is appropriate, if not preferred due to ambiguity or uncertainty in terms of the gender of referents. In this work, we present a rule-based and a neural approach to gender-neutral rewriting for English along with manually curated synthetic data (WinoBias+) and natural data (OpenSubtitles and Reddit) benchmarks. A detailed manual and automatic evaluation highlights how our NeuTral Rewriter, trained on data generated by the rule-based approach, obtains word error rates (WER) below 0.18% on synthetic, in-domain and out-domain test sets.

Original language	English
Pages	8940–8948
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.704
Publication status	Published - 13 Sep 2021
Event	The 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - Punta Cana, Punta Cana, Dominica Duration: 7 Nov 2022 → 11 Nov 2022 https://2021.emnlp.org/

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Conference	The 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Abbreviated title	EMNLP 2021
Country/Territory	Dominica
City	Punta Cana
Period	7/11/22 → 11/11/22
Internet address	https://2021.emnlp.org/

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NeuTral Rewriter : A Rule-Based and Neural Approach to Automatic Rewriting into Gender-Neutral Alternatives. / Vanmassenhove, Eva ; Emmery, Chris ; Shterionov, Dimitar.

2021. 8940–8948 Paper presented at The 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Punta Cana, Dominica.

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