mGeNTE: A Multilingual Resource for Gender-Neutral Language and Translation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09409v2
• Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 17:23:04 GMT
• Title: mGeNTE: A Multilingual Resource for Gender-Neutral Language and Translation
• Authors: Beatrice Savoldi, Eleonora Cupin, Manjinder Thind, Anne Lauscher, Andrea Piergentili, Matteo Negri, Luisa Bentivogli,
• Abstract summary: mGeNTE is a dataset of English-Italian/German/Spanish language pairs. It enables research in both automatic Gender-Neutral Translation (GNT) and language modelling for three grammatical gender languages.
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• Abstract: Gender-neutral language reflects societal and linguistic shifts towards greater inclusivity by avoiding the implication that one gender is the norm over others. This is particularly relevant for grammatical gender languages, which heavily encode the gender of terms for human referents and over-relies on masculine forms, even when gender is unspecified or irrelevant. Language technologies are known to mirror these inequalities, being affected by a male bias and perpetuating stereotypical associations when translating into languages with extensive gendered morphology. In such cases, gender-neutral language can help avoid undue binary assumptions. However, despite its importance for creating fairer multi- and cross-lingual technologies, inclusive language research remains scarce and insufficiently supported in current resources. To address this gap, we present the multilingual mGeNTe dataset. Derived from the bilingual GeNTE (Piergentili et al., 2023), mGeNTE extends the original corpus to include the English-Italian/German/Spanish language pairs. Since each language pair is English-aligned with gendered and neutral sentences in the target languages, mGeNTE enables research in both automatic Gender-Neutral Translation (GNT) and language modelling for three grammatical gender languages.

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