@inproceedings{eder-etal-2021-acquiring,
    title = "Acquiring a Formality-Informed Lexical Resource for Style Analysis",
    author = "Eder, Elisabeth  and
      Krieg-Holz, Ulrike  and
      Hahn, Udo",
    editor = "Merlo, Paola  and
      Tiedemann, Jorg  and
      Tsarfaty, Reut",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume",
    month = apr,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2021.eacl-main.174/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-main.174",
    pages = "2028--2041",
    abstract = "To track different levels of formality in written discourse, we introduce a novel type of lexicon for the German language, with entries ordered by their degree of (in)formality. We start with a set of words extracted from traditional lexicographic resources, extend it by sentence-based similarity computations, and let crowdworkers assess the enlarged set of lexical items on a continuous informal-formal scale as a gold standard for evaluation. We submit this lexicon to an intrinsic evaluation related to the best regression models and their effect on predicting formality scores and complement our investigation by an extrinsic evaluation of formality on a German-language email corpus."
}