arXiv:2603.17962cs.CL2026-03

为机器翻译中的性别标注提供精准框架,解决男女用语失衡问题。

ConGA: Guidelines for Contextual Gender Annotation. A Framework for Annotating Gender in Machine Translation

  • 基于语言学设计词级性别标注规范,区分语义与语法性别。
  • 在英语到意大利语翻译中发现男性化默认倾向严重,女性化表达不一致。
  • 适合研究性别偏见、多语言NLP和可解释性模型的开发者使用。

跨语言处理性别仍是机器翻译(MT)和大语言模型(LLMs)的长期挑战,尤其在从无性别语言向形态性别语言(如英语转意大利语)翻译时更为突出。英语通常省略语法性别,而意大利语需在多个语法范畴中明确性别一致。这种不对称常导致系统默认使用阳性形式,加剧偏见并降低准确性。为此,我们提出上下文性别标注(ConGA)框架,一套基于语言学的词级性别标注指南。该方案在英语中通过三种标签区分语义性别:男性(M)、女性(F)、模糊(A),在意大利语中对应语法性别实现:男性(M)、女性(F),并加入实体级标识符以支持跨句追踪。我们将ConGA应用于gENder-IT数据集,构建了评估翻译性别偏见的金标准资源。结果揭示出系统性男性化过度使用及女性化表达不一致,凸显当前MT系统的持续局限。通过结合细粒度语言标注与量化评估,本工作既提供方法论,也建立基准,助力构建更具性别意识的多语言自然语言处理系统。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Handling gender across languages remains a persistent challenge for Machine Translation (MT) and Large Language Models (LLMs), especially when translating from gender-neutral languages into morphologically gendered ones, such as English to Italian. English largely omits grammatical gender, while Italian requires explicit agreement across multiple grammatical categories. This asymmetry often leads MT systems to default to masculine forms, reinforcing bias and reducing translation accuracy. To address this issue, we present the Contextual Gender Annotation (ConGA) framework, a linguistically grounded set of guidelines for word-level gender annotation. The scheme distinguishes between semantic gender in English through three tags, Masculine (M), Feminine (F), and Ambiguous (A), and grammatical gender realisation in Italian (Masculine (M), Feminine (F)), combined with entity-level identifiers for cross-sentence tracking. We apply ConGA to the gENder-IT dataset, creating a gold-standard resource for evaluating gender bias in translation. Our results reveal systematic masculine overuse and inconsistent feminine realisation, highlighting persistent limitations of current MT systems. By combining fine-grained linguistic annotation with quantitative evaluation, this work offers both a methodology and a benchmark for building more gender-aware and multilingual NLP systems.

性别标注机器翻译多语言NLP偏见评估

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