Olá, Bonjour, Salve! XFORMAL: A Benchmark for Multilingual Formality Style Transfer

Eleftheria Briakou, Di Lu, Ke Zhang, Joel Tetreault


Abstract
We take the first step towards multilingual style transfer by creating and releasing XFORMAL, a benchmark of multiple formal reformulations of informal text in Brazilian Portuguese, French, and Italian. Results on XFORMAL suggest that state-of-the-art style transfer approaches perform close to simple baselines, indicating that style transfer is even more challenging when moving multilingual.
Anthology ID:
2021.naacl-main.256
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Month:
June
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Editors:
Kristina Toutanova, Anna Rumshisky, Luke Zettlemoyer, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Iz Beltagy, Steven Bethard, Ryan Cotterell, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Yichao Zhou
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NAACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
3199–3216
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.256
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.256
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Cite (ACL):
Eleftheria Briakou, Di Lu, Ke Zhang, and Joel Tetreault. 2021. Olá, Bonjour, Salve! XFORMAL: A Benchmark for Multilingual Formality Style Transfer. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 3199–3216, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Olá, Bonjour, Salve! XFORMAL: A Benchmark for Multilingual Formality Style Transfer (Briakou et al., NAACL 2021)
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