"Es geht um Respekt, nicht um Technologie": Erkenntnisse aus einem Interessensgruppen-\"ubergreifenden Workshop zu genderfairer Sprache und Sprachtechnologie
Sabrina Burtscher, Katta Spiel, Lukas Daniel Klausner, Manuel, Lardelli, Dagmar Gromann

TL;DR
This paper reports on a workshop exploring gender-fair language and language technologies, emphasizing the need for context-sensitive, flexible approaches to include non-binary identities in machine translation and avoid reinforcing social biases.
Contribution
It presents insights from a diverse workshop on gender-fair language, highlighting the importance of social context and cautious development in gender-inclusive machine translation.
Findings
Gender in machine translation requires high context sensitivity.
Developers need to navigate social negotiations carefully.
Flexible, adaptable approaches are currently most suitable.
Abstract
With the increasing attention non-binary people receive in Western societies, strategies of gender-fair language have started to move away from binary (only female/male) concepts of gender. Nevertheless, hardly any approaches to take these identities into account into machine translation models exist so far. A lack of understanding of the socio-technical implications of such technologies risks further reproducing linguistic mechanisms of oppression and mislabelling. In this paper, we describe the methods and results of a workshop on gender-fair language and language technologies, which was led and organised by ten researchers from TU Wien, St. P\"olten UAS, FH Campus Wien and the University of Vienna and took place in Vienna in autumn 2021. A wide range of interest groups and their representatives were invited to ensure that the topic could be dealt with holistically. Accordingly, we…
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TopicsGender Studies in Language · Linguistic research and analysis · Linguistic Education and Pedagogy
