Announcing the Safeguards Challenge, the Arena's first Red-versus-Blue competition.
$140K in prizes. Red teams attack, blue teams defend. Alternating phases over three months on a realistic multi-agent system.
Our #PickOfTheWeek by @lina_conti: "#Voice #gender #diversity: expression, perception and acoustics" by Victor Rosi and Carolyn McGettigan (Royal Society Open Science 2025).
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💬Pick of the week @fbk_mt: "Voice gender diversity: expression, perception and acoustics."
A comprehensive review of gender-diverse voices. Covers acoustic properties, perception, and the gap between self-expression of gender and how voices are heard.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/12/10/251193/236071/Voice-gender-diversity-expression-perception-and
Our pick of the week by @apierg: "Glitter: A Multi-Sentence, Multi-Reference #Benchmark for #Gender-Fair German Machine Translation" by A Pranav, Janiça Hackenbuchner, @peppeatta, @manuellardelli, @anne_lauscher (Findings #EMNLP2025)
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Impressive work by the Glitter team: a new human-made benchmark for German gender-inclusive MT with long passages and multiple inclusive approaches + experiments showing that MT systems and LLMs still fall short in generating inclusive outputs.
https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-emnlp.1002/ ✨
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