Dear Sir or Madam, May I Introduce the GYAFC Dataset: Corpus, Benchmarks and Metrics for Formality Style Transfer

Sudha Rao, Joel Tetreault


Abstract
Style transfer is the task of automatically transforming a piece of text in one particular style into another. A major barrier to progress in this field has been a lack of training and evaluation datasets, as well as benchmarks and automatic metrics. In this work, we create the largest corpus for a particular stylistic transfer (formality) and show that techniques from the machine translation community can serve as strong baselines for future work. We also discuss challenges of using automatic metrics.
Anthology ID:
N18-1012
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers)
Month:
June
Year:
2018
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New Orleans, Louisiana
Editors:
Marilyn Walker, Heng Ji, Amanda Stent
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
129–140
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/N18-1012
DOI:
10.18653/v1/N18-1012
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Sudha Rao and Joel Tetreault. 2018. Dear Sir or Madam, May I Introduce the GYAFC Dataset: Corpus, Benchmarks and Metrics for Formality Style Transfer. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers), pages 129–140, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Dear Sir or Madam, May I Introduce the GYAFC Dataset: Corpus, Benchmarks and Metrics for Formality Style Transfer (Rao & Tetreault, NAACL 2018)
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Code
 raosudha89/GYAFC-corpus
Data
GYAFC