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title = "Controlling {J}apanese Honorifics in {E}nglish-to-{J}apanese Neural Machine Translation",
author = "Feely, Weston and
Hasler, Eva and
de Gispert, Adri{\`a}",
editor = "Nakazawa, Toshiaki and
Ding, Chenchen and
Dabre, Raj and
Kunchukuttan, Anoop and
Doi, Nobushige and
Oda, Yusuke and
Bojar, Ond{\v{r}}ej and
Parida, Shantipriya and
Goto, Isao and
Mino, Hidaya",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Asian Translation",
month = nov,
year = "2019",
address = "Hong Kong, China",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/D19-5203",
doi = "10.18653/v1/D19-5203",
pages = "45--53",
abstract = "In the Japanese language different levels of honorific speech are used to convey respect, deference, humility, formality and social distance. In this paper, we present a method for controlling the level of formality of Japanese output in English-to-Japanese neural machine translation (NMT). By using heuristics to identify honorific verb forms, we classify Japanese sentences as being one of three levels of informal, polite, or formal speech in parallel text. The English source side is marked with a feature that identifies the level of honorific speech present in the Japanese target side. We use this parallel text to train an English-Japanese NMT model capable of producing Japanese translations in different honorific speech styles for the same English input sentence.",
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%T Controlling Japanese Honorifics in English-to-Japanese Neural Machine Translation
%A Feely, Weston
%A Hasler, Eva
%A de Gispert, Adrià
%Y Nakazawa, Toshiaki
%Y Ding, Chenchen
%Y Dabre, Raj
%Y Kunchukuttan, Anoop
%Y Doi, Nobushige
%Y Oda, Yusuke
%Y Bojar, Ondřej
%Y Parida, Shantipriya
%Y Goto, Isao
%Y Mino, Hidaya
%S Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Asian Translation
%D 2019
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Hong Kong, China
%F feely-etal-2019-controlling
%X In the Japanese language different levels of honorific speech are used to convey respect, deference, humility, formality and social distance. In this paper, we present a method for controlling the level of formality of Japanese output in English-to-Japanese neural machine translation (NMT). By using heuristics to identify honorific verb forms, we classify Japanese sentences as being one of three levels of informal, polite, or formal speech in parallel text. The English source side is marked with a feature that identifies the level of honorific speech present in the Japanese target side. We use this parallel text to train an English-Japanese NMT model capable of producing Japanese translations in different honorific speech styles for the same English input sentence.
%R 10.18653/v1/D19-5203
%U https://aclanthology.org/D19-5203
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/D19-5203
%P 45-53
Markdown (Informal)
[Controlling Japanese Honorifics in English-to-Japanese Neural Machine Translation](https://aclanthology.org/D19-5203) (Feely et al., WAT 2019)
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