@inproceedings{faruqui12:_towar_model_of_formal_and,
  abstract = {Informal and formal (T/V) address in dialogue is not distinguished overtly in modern English, e.g. by pronoun choice like in many other languages such as French (tu/vous). Our study investigates the status of the T/V distinction in English literary texts. Our main findings are: (a) human raters can label monolingual English utterances as T or V fairly well, given sufficient context; (b), a bilingual corpus can be exploited to induce a supervised classifier for T/V without human annotation. It assigns T/V at sentence level with up to 68\% accuracy, relying mainly on lexical features; (c), there is a marked asymmetry between lexical features for formal speech (which are conventionalized and therefore general) and informal speech (which are text-specific).},
  added-at = {2017-04-03T19:28:28.000+0200},
  address = {Avignon, France},
  author = {Faruqui, Manaal and Pad{\'o}, Sebastian},
  biburl = {https://puma.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/bibtex/254a7f5449edc01e2202d39bfabbeed75/sp},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of EACL 2012},
  interhash = {05acf266aa40403dd6139157962219f7},
  intrahash = {54a7f5449edc01e2202d39bfabbeed75},
  keywords = {conference myown},
  timestamp = {2024-02-22T12:37:16.000+0100},
  title = {Towards a model of formal and information address in
                  {E}nglish},
  url = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/E/E12/E12-1064.pdf},
  year = 2012
}