构建首个英文-法文性别偏见评估数据集,测试大模型在非二元性别翻译中的公平性。
FairTranslate: An English-French Dataset for Gender Bias Evaluation in Machine Translation by Overcoming Gender Binarity
- 设计包含2418对句子的全人工标注数据集,涵盖职业与代词歧义场景
- 四款主流大模型在翻译中普遍存在性别表征偏差,尤其对'they'等非二元代词处理失衡
- 适合关注生成公平性、语言包容性的NLP研究者与开发者使用
大型语言模型(LLMs)在机器翻译中应用日益广泛,但在处理包容性语言(如单数they代词或符合公平语言规范的文本)时表现不足。为系统评估模型在性别偏见方面的表现,本文提出FairTranslate,一个全新且完全人工标注的数据集,用于评估从英语到法语的非二元性别偏见。该数据集包含2418个英法双语句子对,涉及职业相关文本,附带丰富的元数据:职业的刻板印象程度、语法性别指示模糊性、以及真实性别标签(男性、女性或包容性)。我们针对Gemma2-2B、Mistral-7B、Llama3.1-8B、Llama3.3-70B四款领先模型,在不同提示策略下进行评估。结果揭示各模型在性别表征上存在显著偏差,凸显实现机器翻译公平性的持续挑战。研究强调需针对性制定策略以保障大模型翻译中的语言公平与包容。数据集已公开发布于Hugging Face,实验代码同步开源至GitHub。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly leveraged for translation tasks but often fall short when translating inclusive language -- such as texts containing the singular 'they' pronoun or otherwise reflecting fair linguistic protocols. Because these challenges span both computational and societal domains, it is imperative to critically evaluate how well LLMs handle inclusive translation with a well-founded framework. This paper presents FairTranslate, a novel, fully human-annotated dataset designed to evaluate non-binary gender biases in machine translation systems from English to French. FairTranslate includes 2418 English-French sentence pairs related to occupations, annotated with rich metadata such as the stereotypical alignment of the occupation, grammatical gender indicator ambiguity, and the ground-truth gender label (male, female, or inclusive). We evaluate four leading LLMs (Gemma2-2B, Mistral-7B, Llama3.1-8B, Llama3.3-70B) on this dataset under different prompting procedures. Our results reveal substantial biases in gender representation across LLMs, highlighting persistent challenges in achieving equitable outcomes in machine translation. These findings underscore the need for focused strategies and interventions aimed at ensuring fair and inclusive language usage in LLM-based translation systems. We make the FairTranslate dataset publicly available on Hugging Face, and disclose the code for all experiments on GitHub.
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