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

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    Abstract

    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 languageEnglish
    Pages8940–8948
    Number of pages8
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 13 Sept 2021
    EventThe 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - Punta Cana, Punta Cana, Dominica
    Duration: 7 Nov 202211 Nov 2022
    https://2021.emnlp.org/

    Conference

    ConferenceThe 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
    Abbreviated titleEMNLP 2021
    Country/TerritoryDominica
    CityPunta Cana
    Period7/11/2211/11/22
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    Keywords

    • cs.CL
    • cs.AI

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