Controlling Japanese Honorifics in English-to-Japanese Neural Machine Translation (D19-52)
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| Challenge: | In the Japanese language different levels of honorific speech are used to convey respect, deference, humility, formality and social distance. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for controlling the level of formality of Japanese output . they use heuristics to identify honorific verb forms to classify Japanese sentences . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can produce Japanese translations in different honorific speech styles for the same English input sentence. |
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