Paper ID: 2210.12410

The Shared Task on Gender Rewriting

Bashar Alhafni, Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Ossama Obeid, Sultan Alrowili, Daliyah Alzeer, Khawlah M. Alshanqiti, Ahmed ElBakry, Muhammad ElNokrashy, Mohamed Gabr, Abderrahmane Issam, Abdelrahim Qaddoumi, K. Vijay-Shanker, Mahmoud Zyate

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.

Submitted: Oct 22, 2022