Towards Responsible Machine Translation [electronic resource] : Ethical and Legal Considerations in Machine Translation /

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I: Responsible Machine Translation: Ethical, Philosophical and Legal Aspects -- Chapter 2. Prolegomenon to Contemporary Ethics of Machine Translation -- Chapter 3. The Ethics of Machine Translation -- Chapter 4. Licensing and Usage Rights of Language Data in Machine Translation -- Chapter 5. Authorship and Rights Ownership in the Machine Translation Era -- Part II: Responsible Machine Translation from the End-User Perspective -- Chapter 6. The Ethics of Machine Translation Post-editing in the Translation Ecosystem -- Chapter 7. Ethics and Machine Translation: The End User Perspective -- Chapter 8. Ethics, Automated Processes, Machine Translation, and Crises -- Part III: Responsible Machine Translation: Societal Impact -- Chapter 9. Gender and Age Bias in Commercial Machine Translation -- Chapter 10. The Ecological Footprint of Neural Machine Translation Systems -- Chapter 11. Treating Speech as Personable Identifiable Information -- Impact in Machine Translation.

This book is a contribution to the research community towards thinking and reflecting on what Responsible Machine Translation really means. It was conceived as an open dialogue across disciplines, from philosophy to law, with the ultimate goal of providing a wide spectrum of topics to reflect on. It covers aspects related to the development of Machine translation systems, as well as its use in different scenarios, and the societal impact that it may have. This text appeals to students and researchers in linguistics, translation, natural language processing, philosophy, and law as well as professionals working in these fields.