The Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies Workshop (GITT)  is set out to be the first workshop that focuses on gender-inclusive language in translation and cross-lingual scenarios. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse areas, including industry partners, MT practitioners and language professionals. GITT aims to encourage multidisciplinary research that develops and interrogates both solutions and challenges for addressing bias and promoting gender inclusivity in MT and translation tools.

Topics

GITT invites technical as well as non-technical submissions, which consist of experimental, theoretical or methodological contributions. We explicitly welcome interdisciplinary submissions, and submissions that focus on innovative, non-binary linguistic strategies and/or with sociolinguistically-informed perspectives. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Models or methods for assessing and mitigating gender bias
• New resources for inclusive language and gender translation (e.g., datasets, translation memories, dictionaries)
• Social, cross-lingual, and ethical implications of gender bias
• Qualitative and quantitative analyses on the potential limits of current approaches to gender bias in MT, error taxonomies as well as best practices and guidelines
• User-centric case studies on the impact of biased language and/or mitigating approaches which can include translators, post-editors, or monolingual MT users

GITT is also open to other non-listed topics aligned with the scope of the workshop and works focusing non-textual modalities (e.g., audiovisual translation)

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Research papers describing novel work (at least 4 up to 10 pages including references)
• Extended abstracts describing novel work (up to 2 pages including references)

Additionally, work aligned with the scope of the workshop that has been accepted for another venue in 2022 can be submitted as:

• Research communication outlining past work (up to 2 pages including references)

Organizing committee

• Luisa Bentivogli
• Eva Vanmassenhove
• Beatrice Savoldi
• Joke Daems
• Janiça Hackenbuchner 

Program committee

• Beatrice Spallaccia, University of Bologna
• Bashar Alhafni, New York University
• Christine Basta, Alexandria University
• Declan Groves, Microsoft
• Dagmar Gromman, University of Vienna
• Johanna Monti, L’Orientale University of Naples
• Manuel Lardelli, Unversity of Vienna
• Marcely Zanon Boito, NAVER LABS Europe
• Maria Isabel Rivas Ginel, University of Burgundy/University of Valladolid
• ‪Michal Měchura, Masaryk University
• Roberta Pederzoli, University of Bologna
• Toms Bergmanis, University of Latvia