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XFORMAL: A Benchmark for Multilingual Formality Style Transfer

A benchmark for multilingual style transfer in Brazilian Portuguese, French, and Italian shows that top approaches perform similarly to simple baselines, highlighting the difficulty of style transfer across languages.

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2021
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arXiv 2021
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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.

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