The Shared Task on Gender Rewriting
This addresses a specific natural language processing challenge for Arabic, but it is incremental as it builds on existing gender rewriting tasks.
The paper tackled the problem of gender rewriting in Arabic, a gender-marking language, by organizing a shared task where five teams generated sentence alternatives for different gender contexts, but no concrete results or numbers were reported.
In this paper, we present the results and findings of the Shared Task on Gender Rewriting, which was organized as part of the Seventh Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop. The task of gender rewriting refers to generating alternatives of a given sentence to match different target user gender contexts (e.g., female speaker with a male listener, a male speaker with a male listener, etc.). This requires changing the grammatical gender (masculine or feminine) of certain words referring to the users. In this task, we focus on Arabic, a gender-marking morphologically rich language. A total of five teams from four countries participated in the shared task.