Dear Sir or Madam, May I Introduce the GYAFC Dataset: Corpus, Benchmarks and Metrics for Formality Style Transfer

Style transfer is the task of automatically transforming a piece of text in one particular style into another.A major barrier to progress in this field has been a lack of training and evaluation datasets, as well as benchmarks and automatic metrics.In this work, we create the largest corpus for a particular stylistic transfer (formality) and show that techniques from the machine translation community can serve as strong baselines for future work.We also discuss challenges of using automatic metrics.* This research was performed when the first author was at Grammarly.Informal: I'd say it is punk though.