Yep, 'ich mag sie' could be informally referring to a woman, formally referring to a person of either gender, or just any group. Machine translation is of cour

Yep, 'ich mag sie' could be informally referring to a woman, formally referring to a person of either gender, or just any group. Machine translation is of course aware of this problem, and doing the (rough) equivalent of "whole program analysis" is an active concern. I.e. you can try to source info elsewhere in a longer input to decide between multiple possible translations for another bit. The problem is really these short inputs where no context is easily available to the program - it's an input problem in some sense; it's just much easier for a human translator to guess from cues the program simply has no input channels for. One of those cues is who exactly they've been hired by, though, and that can be replicated with user profiles, too.