Patrick O'Beirne
Michal MěchuraThis Christmas, #Fairslator wishes you to always remember who you’re talking to and how. https://www.fairslator.com
@mrundkvist
You and Google Translate too. Inevitable without context in a gendered language.
#fairslator #français
#Fairslator had a great time last week discussing machine translation bias #MTBias with translators and other language folk in the European Commission @translatores in Brussels (live) and Luxembourg (remotely). Thank you all for such a lively session – I think we all learned something!
The European Commission's Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) is the largest translation agency in the world. So when they asked me to come and give a talk on MT bias and #Fairslator, of course I didn't say no.
Thursday 7 December, 14:30, Rue de Genève 6, Brussels. See you there, maybe?
It’s only a simple UI tweak but #Fairslator now has better support for texts that are a bit longer than just one-liners. (And yes this is a quote from Jurassic Park. Remember Dr Ian Malcolm?) https://www.fairslator.com/
If you’ve been noticing that #Fairslator was a bit sluggish recently, you weren’t alone. But that’s in the past now because I have figured out how to make it blazingly fast. Fairslator (website and API) will now translate, disambiguate and debias most texts in less than one second. Give it a try: https://www.fairslator.com/
This is what it looks like when your favourite language technologist is on his way from one city beginning with B to another, to launch an exciting #Fairslator spin-off called Genderbase. https://www.terminologue.org/genderbase/
Good news for anyone using #Fairslator’s gender rewriting and form-of-address rewriting API: the API now supports French. https://www.fairslator.com/api Just in time for my presentation at TC45 next week! https://asling.org/tc45/
