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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2015
Yahoo Holdings, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Joel Tetreault, New York, NY (US);
Ellie Pavlick, New York, NY (US);
Oath Inc., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
The present teaching relates to automatic formality classification and transformation of online text items. In one example, a request is received for determining a formality level of a text item in an online communication. One or more linguistic features are extracted from the text item. Contextual information with respect to the online communication is extracted. A formality level of the text item is determined based on the one or more linguistic features and the contextual information. The formality level represents a degree of formality of the text item. The formality level is provided as a response to the request.