Rachele Raus

Full Professor

Department of Interpreting and Translation

Academic discipline: FRAN-01/B French Language, Translation and Linguistics

Collaborations

Collaboration with:: Politecnico di TORINO
Country:: Italy
Description:: E-MIMIC (Empowering Multilingual Inclusive comMunICation) is a joint effort of the research communities of linguistics and Deep Learning Natural Language Understanding in fighting against non-inclusive, prejudiced language forms. E-MIMIC aims at: - Fostering inclusive communications in real-world scenarios - Detecting and overcoming language inclusivity issues - Grammatical asymmetry (silencing the feminine form) - Semantic asymmetry (presence of stereotypes) - Exploiting a deep learning pipeline to generalize and automate the process - It leverages language models trained on purpose-specific corpora - It can detect non-inclusive expressions and suggest inclusive alternatives - Currently focusing on Academic and Public Administration Italian documents - Can be adapted to different languages and types of documents To the best of our knowledge, this project is the first attempt to empower inclusive formal communication with the goal of modeling users' meta-linguistic reflexive abilities.

Collaboration with:: Université Paris Sorbonne, University of Cyprus, Academia Romana Bucarest, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Université de Lyon 2, Université Catholique de Lille, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Country:: Italy