Adding a "context" option to improve translation quality and avoid Gender Bias

Question

This really feedback to the Azure Translator team ...

I've observed that when translating from English to a gender specific language like French or Hindi the translation result can have a bias towards translating text from a male perspective rather than female. I see that Bing Translate has sought to address this by showing both male and female translations so I think the engine has the capability but I can understand that this is constrained by the current API. What's missing is the translation "context" so one approach that I might address this and improve translation would be to introduce a translation "context" option. This is the solution that I see DeepL has added that I suspect would be the most beneficial:

• Bing’s gendered translations tackle bias in translation
• DeepL Translation Context

Answer 1

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