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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@article{arxiv.2104.04108,
title = {XFORMAL: A Benchmark for Multilingual Formality Style Transfer},
author = {Eleftheria Briakou and Di Lu and Ke Zhang and Joel Tetreault},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.04108},
year = {2021}
}