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PhD student in computer science at Georgia Tech. Studying social change online with computational linguistics. Likes dropping pronouns and baking cookies.
Feb 14, 2019 16 tweets 8 min read
Testing for bias in Google Translate: a thread. 1/13 Google Translate is extremely useful but it has flaws. For example, how it handles gender. Translating gender-neutral Turkish to English requires that pronouns gain gender, and stereotypes can emerge ("X is an engineer" -> "he is an engineer"). Google is trying to fix this! 2/13