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
- Venue:
- NAACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3199–3216
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.256
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.256
- 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.
- Cite (Informal):
- Olá, Bonjour, Salve! XFORMAL: A Benchmark for Multilingual Formality Style Transfer (Briakou et al., NAACL 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-5/2021.naacl-main.256.pdf
- Data
- GYAFC, OpenSubtitles