A Study of Style in Machine Translation: Controlling the Formality of Machine Translation Output
Xing Hua Niu, Marianna J. Martindale, Marine Jacinthe Carpuat · 2017
Stylistic variations of language, such as formality, carry speakers' intention beyond literal meaning and should be conveyed adequately in translation.We propose to use lexical formality models to control the formality level of machine translation output.We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in empirical evaluations, as measured by automatic metrics and human assessments.